[Haskell-cafe] Refactoring status

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Peter,

Thursday, January 3, 2008, 9:13:27 PM, you wrote:

well, i use refactoring without help of any tool. according to my
own experience, it's much easier in Haskell than in other languages i
know - basically, you just cut-n-paste your code around. i don't use
type signatures at all - this creates some problems when i wrote large
portion of code and try to make it compile, but nothing more

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> Is any work being done on Haskell refactoring support, like HaRe or others?
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> Is anyone actively using refactoring? When using C#, I used
> Resharper a lot, and ever since, I▓m really hooked to refactoring,
> so I miss it a lot when doing Haskelling. (I never seem to get a
> function name or signature right the first time┘ is it just me? J)
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> I▓m currently using Emacs with Haskell Mode (which does not offer
> refactoring support) but I think many of you use VIM (which does support it?)
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> Can one use refactoring outside of an editor? This does not really
> sound practical,  but maybe it works?
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> Peter
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> PS: IMHO I don▓t think text should be the source format of our
> files┘ I think we should use a standarized decorated AST as the
> source, from which we can derive a textual (but also graphical) view
> and editor┘ Any comments on that? J
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Best regards,
 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com