On 6/24/07, Rustom Mody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does someone know that when using bicycle repair man to refactor python code
> what exactly extract local variable means?
It means extracting a part (or all of) an expression and replacing it
with a sensibly-named local variable.
Shamelessly copied from c2:
> For example:
>
> if ( (x==0) || ((y<17) && name == null) ) {
> ..
> }
>
> becomes:
>
> final boolean outOfActiveAreal = (x==0) || ((y<17) && name == null) ;
> if (outOfActiveAreal ) {
> ..
> }
Some more articles:
http://refactoring.com/catalog/introduceExplainingVariable.html and
http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?IntroduceExplainingVariable have
discussions of them.
-rob
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