Right, an algorithm that can identity possible duplications and a human
that guides the tool to ignore or not the recommendation, and determine a
good name for the resulting new word.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:42 PM, leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:37 PM, John Benediktsson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Not sure if such a tool already exists, though.
> >
> >
> > We have a lint tool (USE: lint) that looks for duplicate code paths, it
> > usually gives good results, but sometimes maybe misses a nested structure
> > that could be factored out with some thought.
> >
> > I think after 0.96 is released, when the new parser design gets finished
> I
> > imagine we'll make more progress towards what you are describing. At the
> > moment, though, it still requires some thought and manual editing.
>
> Yeah. Not necessarily demanding the feature.
>
> Just wondering whether the idea is theoretically possible.
>
> At some level, refactoring of code seems like a really complicated
> case of pattern recognition, which an algorithm should be capable of
> doing.
>
>
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