On Dec 28, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote: >> Yes when I looked at RB (in 99) I guess that they also used existing >> instances to try to get more >> information but mainly for instance variables. > > I am not aware of such code. RBRefactoryTyper is part of the > refactoring engine since I first looked at it around ESUG 2002.
May be it was mentioned in their ecoop paper or in some workshop. I had fun with it when I wrote the message passing control paper in 98 after may be john told me that t was experimental. > It is > relatively hidden, and only used by a few refactorings to provide > better default suggestions (i.e. extract to component). It is also > used in OB to provide a better default class comment template. And in > ECompletion for better suggestions since RoelTyper is not useable > anymore. > >> I would really like to see more work around practical tools that can help >> us. I have the work on type inference >> from francisco garau on my hard-disc. But this is a pity that nobody build >> on top of that. > > Never heard of that code. I can put it on a server. This was the master thesis of Francisco Garau. > > Lukas > > -- > Lukas Renggli > www.lukas-renggli.ch >
