(taken to -cafe)
"C.Reinke"
Dear Haskellers,
as part of our project on Refactoring Functional Programs
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/refactor-fp/
we are pleased to announce the availability of HaRe 0.1 (also known as HaRe 01/10/2003 ;-), a snapshot of our Haskell Refactorer prototype.
First, let me say that I'm intrigued. This looks like really neat functionality to have available. I'm curious whether you are planning (or have developed) tools to *detect* cases for refactoring? Occasionally, I find myself wishing for a tool to help me clean up a finished program, by e.g. - removing unused items from export/import lists - identifying functions which are only used in one place (and thus candidate for inclusion in 'where' clauses) - identifying functions defined in one module, but only (mainly?) used by/depending on functions in another module, and thus candidate for cross-module migration. - perhaps similarly, identify function transformation that reduces the parameter lists (i.e. exposed function interface) and so on. (Does that make sense at all? :-) -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants