Re: Will we ever be able to refactor C++?
Re: Will we ever be able to refactor C++?
- Subject: Re: Will we ever be able to refactor C++?
- From: Marshall Clow <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:18:54 -0800
On Jan 25, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Jeffrey Walton <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Tom Davie <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 25 Jan 2013, at 08:50, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought because Xcode depended on the clang front end for all of its code coverage features, that it would eventually be able to refactor C++. As I understood it, it didn't refactor C++ in the past because clang's C++ support was still insufficient.
>>>
>>> But clang is a very good C++ compiler now. Yet Xcode still balks at even renaming symbols (the only refactoring I've ever needed).
>>>
>>> Any chance we'll see C++ support in the foreseeable future?
>>
>> I believe google's clang team is working very hard on a refactoring library based on clang. This supports C++. We can but hope apple will back port into their clang libraries, and Xcode.
>>
> Things could get tricky because neither Apple nor Google are good
> about pushing changes back upstream in a usable way. While the forks
> might help folks using Apple or Google flavors of the library, efforts
> will likely be of little use the the general population.
I'm curious how you have come to that conclusion, since it directly contradicts my experience.
Have you looked at the history of the clang source code repository?
There are tons of commits from both Google and Apple - every day.
The whole "C++ refactoring library" that Rick mentioned is there, for example.
-- Marshall
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