In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Eclipse's refactorings are a great boon, I find. Refectoring is never >*fully* automatic, of course, but the ability to, for example, select >a chunk of code and have it extracted into a separate method with all >needed arguments and the return value worked out for you is very >helpful. All you have to do is give the new method a name. And this >sort of thing can certainly improve readability.
This is not an attach on you Simon, but if people are relying on that type of thing for increases in software productivity they are hiring the wrong people. Stephen -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/software.html Computer Consultancy, Software Development Windows C++, Java, Assembler, Performance Analysis, Troubleshooting -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list