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From: David Emery <demery@cox.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada (tool I'd like to have...)
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 00:06:18 GMT
Date: 2002-02-04T00:06:18+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <030220021906192576%demery@cox.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C5AB0B7.9D75D49A@grammatech.com

A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away :-), at one of the SIGAda
Future APSE workshops, Tucker Taft, Susan Dart (then at SEI) and I
formed a little group where we looked at "practical tools we wish we
had."  Before we knew the term 'refactoring', we proposed a tool
that would facilitate the movement of types and operations across
packages.  We called it the "hoister"...

Here's a scenario:  Assume a layered architecture, and package P has
a private type with a hidden component C, which comes from package Q.
Now for whatever good reason, we realize that we need to make component
C and its type visible.  So we'd like to "hoist" declarations from Q
and put them into P.  We'd like a tool that would automagically adjust
calls to operations in P and Q.  Some operations the tool could fix
itself, and others it would need to refer to the human engineer.

This is the kind of stuff that I think would be very valuable for
any programming language with an encapsulation mechanism, not just Ada.

         dave



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-04  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 15:13 Refactoring and Ada Paul Anderson
2002-02-02 17:48 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-02 20:36   ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-03  0:21     ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-03 13:53       ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-03 19:23         ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04  2:17           ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-04 20:48             ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04 22:31               ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-04 22:43                 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-06  2:51                 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-03 18:50       ` Simon Wright
2002-02-04  4:32     ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-04 12:28       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-02-04 17:03         ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-06 17:19           ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-04 17:59       ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-04 18:50         ` Pascal Obry
2002-02-05  1:07           ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-05  1:44         ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-06 17:42           ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-06 17:32         ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-07  8:45         ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-02-07 13:54           ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-03 13:48   ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-03 19:38     ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04  2:20       ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-08 21:21       ` Paul Anderson
2002-02-03  9:45 ` Volkert
2002-02-04  0:06 ` David Emery [this message]
2002-02-08  9:24 ` Martin Dowie
2002-02-08 15:15   ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-08 15:52     ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-08 16:07       ` OT : " martin.m.dowie
2002-02-08 17:11         ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-09 19:46           ` martin.m.dowie
2002-02-09 23:04             ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-10 13:57               ` Martin Dowie
2002-02-08 16:06     ` martin.m.dowie
2002-02-08 17:07       ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-09 19:48         ` martin.m.dowie
2002-02-09 23:05           ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-10  1:30     ` Marc A. Criley
2002-02-10  2:58       ` tmoran
2002-02-11 15:27       ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-12 19:16         ` Simon Wright
2002-02-15 19:43           ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-15 20:33           ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-15 21:40             ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-19 16:54               ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-19 19:39                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-20  4:23                   ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-20  5:20                     ` Mark Biggar
2002-02-20  9:58                     ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-20 17:14                       ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-20 17:18                         ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-20 18:08                           ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-20 22:12                             ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-23 22:48                             ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-21  0:41                           ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-21  1:31                             ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-22 14:37                             ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-22 21:23                               ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-23 23:04                                 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-25 20:26                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-23 23:21                                 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-23 22:58                             ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-23 22:55                     ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-26  1:05                       ` Nick Roberts
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