In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Simon Hibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't even vaguely concieve of how such a think could work, even at a > trivial, hypothetical level. The code converter would ahve to actualy > understand at a general level what the program does and how it does it, > then come up with an orriginal way to solve the same problem using a > different methodology. > > As to the simple case, even here, the converter would have to make > inteligent decisions. Which methods and properties should it move to > the base class, and which should it keep local? What criteria might it > use for making such a choice? How could you be sure that the decisions > it made would be useful or appropriate? Yes indeed. This must be OO fever in its most rarified form - the notion that even mechanical conversion to OO would be an improvement. Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
