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by dahauns 3326 days ago
Please. With all due respect towards Smalltalk and all the pioneering work it did, stop it with the Refactoring Browser as a shining example for automated refactoring.

No, it really can't, not with the correctness guarantees of a statically typed language.

If you are required to run tests to do refactoring, you're simply not on the same level.

The last paragraphs in this link for an example (Ironic title, I know. :) ):

http://wiki.c2.com/?DynamicTypesEaseRefactoring