Refactoring Browser

Ok, a while ago I read about a Re-factoring Browser for I think, Lisp (or maybe it was smalltalk). This was a tool to help with re-factoring. I was wondering if anyone knows of a free one for F#? (seems reasonable a functional languages shou开发者_Python百科ld be 'nice' for that kind of thing)

Yes, in principle, functional languages are great for refactoring. As far as I know, the only tool that implements some support for refactoring is this project:

• F# Refactor at CodePlex (and downloads at Visual Studio Gallery)

Currently, it supports only a few basic things, but it is using a good approach (using the F# source code to do the difficult work such as type-checking), so I tihnk it is a promising project.

Anyway, many refactorings in F# don't even need a tool support - often cutting code & pasting it into a different context is all you need. For example, I often start with just writing let declarations and then turn them into a type by indenting them and enclosing them in a type definition (as local functions).