Refactoring and Ada

[Paul Anderson <paul@grammatech.com>]

Hi!

As part of a government research contract, we are developing a
Refactoring editor for Ada.  I am interested in soliciting opinions
from the group about Refactoring and Ada.

For those that don't know, Refactoring is defined as "a technique to
restructure code in a disciplined way."  It has been associated with
Extreme Programming, but stands on its own as a highly useful
technique.  General information about Refactoring can be found at
http://www.refactoring.com.

I am interested in finding out if there are any Ada projects out there
that actively use refactoring.  If so, what refactorings do you use?
Are they just like the Java ones, or are there features of Ada that
mandate special-purpose refactorings?  What features would you like to
see in a refactoring editor for Ada?

I am especially interested in any use of refactoring in support of
legacy code, either to clean up code that has been automatically
translated to Ada, or to prepare Ada code so that it can be translated
more easily into something else.

Best regards, and thanks in advance for your input.

Paul.

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