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Re: Refactoring discovery

From	David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Refactoring discovery
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Date	2011-03-30 16:25 -0400

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On 30/03/2011 4:10 PM, David Lamb wrote:
> first = longComplexOperation(lots of arguments)
> second = anotherLongComplexOperation(same set of arguments)
> it's going to take a very sophisticated compiler to synthesize
> (first, second) = combinedLongOperation(same set of arguments)
> and it's going to have to solve the Halting Problem, too.

I forgot to mention, the two sets of arguments might each be overlapping 
subsets of a larger set of arguments, making the commonality even harder 
to detect automatically.  The designer really has to write 
combinedLongOperation(LikelyOneObjectWithFields) that returns 
AllTheResults object.

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Re: Refactoring discovery David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-03-30 16:10 -0400
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