Description Markus Keller 2004-03-02 12:33:02 EST

When refactoring procedural code, you often have to remove parameters and inline
the expression which is used as actual argument.

We should have a refactoring which inlines a selected actual argument expression
in a method call. It should remove the parameter in the method declaration and
in calls to the method, and replace usages of the parameter by the selected
expression.

Example:
  void update(Node node) {
     // use node without assigning to it:
     ... node.getParent() ...
  }
  void callerOne() { ... update(getNode()) ... } // or update(fNode), ...
  void callerTwo() { ... update(getNode()) ... } // or update(fNode), ...
  ...
==> inline "getNode()" ==>
  void update() { ... getNode().getParent() ... }
  void callerOne() { update() }
  ...