Perl6 and support for Refactoring IDE's

2005-05-06 Thread J Matisse Enzer
Will Perl 6 help us have tools that are as good or better than the ones available for Java, C#, etc? I've been using Perl since 1994 and for the past several years have used it to build a number of complex mod_perl applications. I love Perl. The following may be considered heresy, but I belie

Re: Perl6 and support for Refactoring IDE's

2005-05-06 Thread J Matisse Enzer
Thanks for your comments - I was afraid I'd get flamed for suggesting something wasn't perfect about Perl :-) On May 6, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Fagyal Csongor wrote: IMHO subversioning does not have too much to do with the language itself. Subversioning operates on files. An IDE might integrate some

Re: Perl6 and support for Refactoring IDE's

2005-06-03 Thread J Matisse Enzer
On May 26, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... The way I see it working is that the language itself has a bunch of minimal hooks that get triggered by various phases of compilation etc. Your editor then becomes something that instruments the c

Parsing perl without Perl (sort of)

2005-06-10 Thread J Matisse Enzer
Adam Kennedy's new module PPI: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/06/09/ppi.html http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?PPI His module attempts to implement a parser that: ... creates a "round-trip" capability, parsing a file into an internal model and back out again without moving a single white space