On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 02:42:05AM +0100, deadalnix wrote: > On Sunday, 8 December 2013 at 05:37:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >Or maybe this is just another one of those cultural old age > >indicators? Has the term "refactoring" shifted to mean "variable > >renaming" among the younger coders these days? Genuine question. I'm > >baffled that these two things could even remotely be considered > >similar things. > > > > Refactoring is changing your code, without changing what it does. It > is done in order to make your code easier to understand, more > maintainable, more testable, or whatever. > > Both extracting some code into a function and renaming a variable > are refactoring operations.
OK, but isn't renaming among the more trivial refactoring operations? Albeit, granted, it is probably also the most easily automated. Splitting an overly-long function into smaller pieces is a more meaningful (IMO) refactoring operation, but probably much more difficult to automate (if it even can be). T -- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln