-1 This seems to me to promote the bad programming habit of using values instead of constants. The whole purpose of the constant is to increase readability, and to ease maintenance by making future changes only to the initialization and not every place you used that value. If you are getting rid of the constant in order to improve readability, you probably aren't choosing good constants in the first place. Generally I would think the best thing would be just to rename the variable.
Also, to give it a name like "inline constants" seems to imply that there is some efficiency benefit to be gained by "inlining" constants in Java - which in this case there isn't. --Avi "Thomas Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Just curious. Why would you want to do this? The compiler puts the > > constant value in place of the constant "variable" so there is no > > performance gain. > > Why we use the refactorings at all? To make the code more readable! > > > What you appear to want is that YES is like a #def in C/C++ and is > > inlined. This is not necessary in Java. > > As the name already suggests, the example is just an example. > > Tom > > > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:33:43 +1200, Pete Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Just curious. Why would you want to do this? The compiler puts the > > constant value in place of the constant "variable" so there is no > > performance gain. > > > > What you appear to want is that YES is like a #def in C/C++ and is > > inlined. This is not necessary in Java. > > > > Pete > > > > Oh yeah, -1 :-) > > > > Thomas Singer wrote: > > > > > Since months, I would like to have the option to inline constants -- > > > simply replacing their usage with their initialisation... > > > > > > Example: > > > > > > public static final Option YES = Option.YES; > > > > > > ... > > > setOption(YES); > > > ... > > > > > > ==> > > > > > > ... > > > setOption(Option.YES); > > > ... > > > > > > I know, I can do it with cut'n'paste, but I'm able to do each > > > refactoring with the help of cut'n'paste. > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
