hi,
while refactoring some code today, i noticed how helpful the warnings about unused private variables or functions are.
but it would have been even more helpful to optionally also have warnings (notices) about any unused items to be ableto find them easier and then decide if they are really needed.
greetings, martin.
Well, perhaps you should look at adapting a refactoring tool to work with Pike.
all the tools i can see out there are very language specific, might as well write one from scratch.
refactoring requires a parser. the best parser for pike is pike itself, hence, in order to write a refactoring tool for pike, pike would need this functionality (then the tool could run the code through pike, get a list and report that list to the user or do something more useful (like automaticly remove the items in question)
greetings, martin.
I was sort of expecting that message to continue on to the topic of Parser.Pike; what it lacks, for qualifying as a parser, or something, but found none. Would that help you get further, if it is indeed news?
It would be really exciting to be able to use the actual parser used by the Pike compiler. I really hope that the next version of Hilfe has no parser in it...
absolutely! that would be really exciting.
what does it take to get there?
greetings, martin.
+1
What would be really nifty would be a mode whereby you could access the node tree for a program and query it. That would enable all kinds of very powerful program manipulation.
Bill
On Jul 20, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Martin Bähr wrote:
absolutely! that would be really exciting.
what does it take to get there?
greetings, martin.
H. William Welliver III wrote:
What would be really nifty would be a mode whereby you could access the node tree for a program and query it. That would enable all kinds of very powerful program manipulation.
Lisp, eat your heart out! ;-)
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