Daivd,

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:49 PM, David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:

> Where did I say that clang cannot do that [refactor C++]?
>

Please forgive me if I mis-interpreted what you wrote.  Just like Oscar I
have tremendous respect for your contributions to Emacs and CEDET.

I was responding to this paragraph:

> CEDET will most probably never be able to refactor C++ code, aside from
> very simple cases. There are very few IDEs out there which even try to
> do that; from my experience, none of them do it 100% reliably (just
> bring some meta template programming into the game and see what
> happens). IMHO, "Refactoring C++" should not be in the job description.

To me that sounded like you were dismissing all attempts across all IDEs to
implement "Refactoring C++".  Perhaps on re-reading what you meant was that
100% reliable refactoring of C++ should not be a CEDET goal.  Was that what
you meant?  Or was it still something else?

I did say that if you will accept nothing less than perfection, then by
> all means implement your clang-based silver bullet.


Do you foresee a future in which Emacs + ELPA will offer "lead bullet"
level C++ refactoring?

/john