quick question about refactoring scope

Hi all, i have been working with Lint and traits on Pharo for some time, and i found something a little strange, if you select for a package/category refactoring scope>selection you get a new browser with just the classes on that package/category.  Is there any reason for skipping the traits on the package or it is just a bug?

 Cheers

ps: anyway i created a new "full selection" which also includes the contained traits on the new browser, if someone want it i could publish it to monticello  

The refactoring engine has a flattened view. It does not "see" traits,
only their methods if added in a class.

Lukas

On 4 December 2010 16:44, aizcorbe <[hidden email]> wrote:


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Lukas Renggli
www.lukas-renggli.ch

That sounds strange, since i could want to refactor traits too.  Also, i'm working on a set of Lint rules to check some specific Trait issues.  Shouldn't be any way to select some Traits to run Lint rules over them (some things different than their methods)?

Traits make everything extremely complex.

If Lint would see traits we would have an explosion of cases to
consider for each rule: should it run on classes (yes/no), should it
run on traits (yes/no), should it run on class methods (yes/no),
should it run on trait methods (yes/no), should it run on imported
trait methods (yes/no). Out of the box most lint rules do not make
sense on traits and even break when being run on traits.

The change model of the refactoring engine can create traits, remove
traits and add and remove methods from traits. As well it supports the
definition of trait imports and undoing these operations. Traits are
not reified in the code model itself though, but that could be added
following RBClass and RBMetaclass if somebody is interested in doing
that.

Refactorings do not work on traits, but again the existing
refactorings probably don't make sense or wouldn't work because they
are targeted at classes. Again, new refactorings could be written if
the code model would be reified.

Lukas

On 4 December 2010 17:57, aizcorbe <[hidden email]> wrote:


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Lukas Renggli
www.lukas-renggli.ch

These are some of the issues i'm facing rigth now on my thesis.  Thanks for the response, it is usefull for me

Cheers