[go-nuts] Something like go fix exists for C++?

I bet you could write one... in go.

The nature of C++ makes it hard (or impossible) to write a general command,
but you can use the clang libraries to get the job done. A couple of the
past LLVM conferences had presentations on the subject:

"Refactoring C++ with Clang" (http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/)

"Clang MapReduce -- Automatic C++ Refactoring at Google Scale"
(http://llvm.org/devmtg/2011-11/videos/Carruth_ClangMapReduce-desktop.mp4)

Take a look at Artistic Style. (http://astyle.sourceforge.net/)
This is a C/C++/C#/Java source code formatter, like Go's "go fmt".
If you want to do source level transformations on those languages,
that's a good place to start.

(I've used Artistic Style on big projects to hammer all the code
into a standard indentation form, regardless of where it came from.
It helps, especially when you're refactoring old code.)

John Nagle

I embarked on a quest to write a C++ source-to-source translator a while
ago: https://github.com/axw/cmonster
It uses Clang's internal API, and is scriptable using Python (3.2+).

I'm not working on it any more (llgo is my new favourite child), and I'm
sure it won't compile. Feel free to fork and fix it. You'll need to know or
learn C++ (fairly intimately, though you can probably get away without
CPPGM), Python 3, Cython, and Clang's internal APIs.

Cheers,
Andrew