Re: Current discussion

[Alexis]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Can anyone suggest an expert on refactoring who would be good to 
> include?

i think that refactoring is something that's paradigm- and/or 
language-specific. For example, Java doesn't (afaik) have CL-style 
macros, so there might be refactoring opportunities available in 
the latter that aren't available in the former; and even in terms 
of OO, i imagine that the combination of CLOS and MOP would result 
in different OO refactoring opportunities in CL than in Java. This 
is why language-specific IDEs can be so powerful - they can 
utilise domain-specific knowledge rather than only being able to 
provide functionality based on the lowest common denominator.


Alexis.