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peterchen
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Posted - Aug 21 2009 :  05:04:52 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That's a refactoring *I* would like to see:

For a given symbol that is a class member, offer an option "Move to base class". If the class employs multiple inheritance, a selection of which base class is needed.

This is a common operation when refactoring, an one of the more painful ones as up to four files are involved.

When moving, all modifiers (private/public/protected, virtual, static etc.) are preserved.

Ideally, "distribution over files" would is preserved, too:

  • if the declaration is in derived.h and implementation in derived.cpp, the elements are moved to base.h and base.cpp respectively

  • if the definition is in-class, it is moved to base.h and remains in-class

  • if the definition is out-of-class in derived.h, it is moved to an out-of-class inline function in base.h

  • should work for attributes, methods and static data members




feline
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Posted - Aug 21 2009 :  7:08:53 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We are considering adding a refactoring to do this. Thank you for the clear description of how you would like it to work.

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