On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 06:11:03 +0100
Robert Rothenberg <r...@cpan.org> wrote:
> At $work, I've been writing scripts that use PPI to munge massive amounts
> of legacy code. So far simple things like changing die/warn to croak/carp,
> ensuring all modules specify a minimum version number, or changing print
> "foo\n" so say "foo", etc. It seems worthy enough to turn this code into a
> CPAN module.
>
> My thoughts are that it would use a plugin system for specific tasks, and a
> command-line script that takes plugin names as arguments, so basically
> you'd run the script to apply various tasks to a set of modules or scripts
> in a directory, perhaps using a configuration file for each of the plugins.
>
> The early version would have simple plugins, but there's no reason why more
> complex plugins couldn't be written (e.g. to translate a non-Moose class
> into something Moose-like), or other things like optimize certain kinds of
> expressions.
>
> I'm well aware of the limitations of doing this automatically. But the idea
> is to get a script that can do the bulk of the tedious rewriting, so that a
> human can clean up the mistakes. It's meant to be run by intelligent people
> who use things like version control and tests.
>
> So what should it be called? I'm thinking Perl::Rewrite is the best name.
>
> > Alternatives are:
> > - Perl::Refactor - except "refactoring" has a technical meaning that I
> don't think applies
> > - Perl::Modernize - except that one might want a plugin that translates
> newer-style code into older code
> > - Perl::Munge - except that it connotes sloppiness
> > - Perl::Snorft - no, just kidding.... I have no idea what that means.
> > - ?
Perl::Modify? Perl::Transform? Perl::Revise? I don't like Perl::Rewrite too
much because it may (but not necessarily) imply rewriting from scratch.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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