Analysis of preprocessor constructs in Erlang

Kitlei, Róbert; Bozó, István; Kozsik, Tamás; Tejfel, Máté; Tóth, Melinda

doi:10.1145/1863509.1863517

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“…The analysis we perform requires knowledge of the Erlang pre-processor, and similar work to this is reported in Kitlei et al (2010).…”

Section: Testing and Refactoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While there is an established literature on refactoring test code written in the 'xUnit' style (Meszaros, 2007), we are not aware of xUnit-awareness having been implemented in any existing refactoring engines. The analysis we perform requires knowledge of the Erlang pre-processor, and similar work to this is reported in Kitlei et al (2010).…”

Section: Case Study: Removal Of Error Macrosmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Refactoring tools for functional languages

Thompson¹,

Li²

2013

J. Funct. Prog.

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Refactoring is the process of changing the design of a program without changing what it does. Typical refactorings, such as function extraction and generalisation, are intended to make a program more amenable to extension, more comprehensible and so on. Refactorings differ from other sorts of program transformation in being applied to source code, rather than to a 'core' language within a compiler, and also in having an effect across a code base, rather than to a single function definition, say. Because of this, there is a need to give automated support to the process. This paper reflects on our experience of building tools to refactor functional programs written in Haskell (HaRe) and Erlang (Wrangler). We begin by discussing what refactoring means for functional programming languages, first in theory, and then in the context of a larger example. Next, we address system design and details of system implementation as well as contrasting the style of refactoring and tooling for Haskell and Erlang. Building both tools led to reflections about what particular refactorings mean, as well as requiring analyses of various kinds, and we discuss both of these. We also discuss various extensions to the core tools, including integrating the tools with test frameworks; facilities for detecting and eliminating code clones; and facilities to make the systems extensible by users. We then reflect on our work by drawing some general conclusions, some of which apply particularly to functional languages, while many others are of general value.

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“…The analysis we perform requires knowledge of the Erlang pre-processor, and similar work to this is reported in Kitlei et al (2010).…”

Section: Testing and Refactoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Case Study: Removal Of Error Macrosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refactoring tools for functional languages

Thompson¹,

Li²

2013

J. Funct. Prog.

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“…Specifically in Erlang, the preprocessor tracks macro definitions, expands macro applications and, of course, performs header file inclusion and conditional compilation. In RefactorErl, files (either modules or headers) loaded into the tool are always preprocessed [22], therefore this is the first point where we are allowed to put some customisation into the process.…”

Section: Preprocessormentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending Erlang by utilising RefactorErl

Horpácsi

2013

Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Erlang

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In this paper, we present the idea of utilising a refactoring tool for implementing extensions to a programming language. We elaborate the correspondence between the main components of the compiler and the refactoring tool, and examine how analysis and transformation features of the tool can be exploited for turning its refactoring framework into a translation framework. The presented method allows one, for instance, to make the Erlang language supportive for embedding domain specific languages as well as to make its functions portable.

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Analysis of preprocessor constructs in Erlang

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Refactoring tools for functional languages

Refactoring tools for functional languages

Extending Erlang by utilising RefactorErl

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