> What about the handling of comments?  The RB or its parser, etc. made *no* 
> attempt to get them in the correct position as presented to the formatter, 
> making the effort of creating a formatter fairly pointless.

The new RB has a better representation of where comments are put.
Since I personally almost never put comments within the method body, I
cannot comment if the formatting of comments has improved.

For tools the Smalltalk syntax is a nightmare. A parser can only use
heuristics to assign a comment to the right statement. Writing a
formatter is even more difficult, because about everything can be
nested in everything else.

> If that has improved, I will take another look, but my instinct is to ask for 
> the RB to make a list what it would need to reformat so I can take care of it 
> myself - it was that bad.

That's what RB does (and always did) when you enabled the preference
#promptOnRefactoring (which is the default in OB-Refactory).

Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

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