Description soman namos 2017-01-26 08:12:29 EST

Sometimes when you change the code you can decide to make some certain class templated i.e. class A {}; becomes template<typename T> class A{}; In such cases if you have all funcs' implementations in a.cpp file you need to manually move the implementation to header which could be annoying if you have many functions. The same is true for constexpr functions. It would be good to see some automatic function which moves (or maybe copies for safety) implementation from source to header.

Little example:

1) We have two files
=====A.HPP=====
// ifdefs, includes, etc.

class A {
public:
  void foo();
};

// ...
===============

=====A.CPP=====
// idefs, includes, etc.
void A::foo() {
  // Do something
}
===============

2) Then we use Eclipse Refactoring somehow like 'Refactor => Move implementation to header' and get changed header file:

=====A.HPP=====
class A {
public:
  void foo() {
    // Do something
  }
};

a.cpp could be left unchanged (for safety) or deleted.

Additional information of possible implementation conditions:
1) We should have 'Preview' button.
2) It would be very nice if function order and entire header file structure won't be changed (sorted, formatted, etc.)
3) It should work both with class members and free functions.
4) We should be able to choose which functions to move (for example I want to move only 1 of 5 functions which I made a constexpr. In this case cpp file shouldn't be deleted or unchanged after operation. It still should has 4 functions.