> IMHO, the real problem has been a sort of XP snobbery: it appears that those > building or integrating what would otherwise be a wonderful tool, have zero > interest in preserving comments, and even some contempt for those of who > write them.
This has nothing to do with snobbery, it is a technical issue. > I will spare you second-hand comments about what has been done in other > languages and editors, as I have never encountered an RB anywhere but > Smalltalk. I know the refactoring engine of Eclipse. It must be 20 years ahead of Smalltalk. When saying that one must keep in mind that printing Java code so that it preserves the formatting is easier than to do the same with Smalltalk. Even if they have to handle 100+ AST node types individually, they all have a very strict structure and are rarely nested in unpredictable ways. Furthermore since the editor expands, completes, indents and formats a lot of code automatically anyway, people don't even notice when their code gets reformatted. Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
