Posix vs. Windows

[Sean Kelly]

On May 19, 2012, at 7:00 AM, "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, 19 May 2012 at 13:49:28 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> On May 18, 2012, at 7:10 PM, "Mehrdad" <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2. Okay, so that's clever. :P Now tell me what you do when you have dozens of lines in your source file like
>>>   @property auto length() { return _range.length; }
>>> and you want to rename the field 'length'? How do you prevent the second one from getting renamed?
>> 
>> sed using a regex that accounts for more of the line than just "length", like " length(".  It only gets tricky if you are renaming a method call with a non-unique name, which is when you need to use compiler output to flag the offending lines since pure text analysis won't cut it.
>> 
> 
> Somehow I fail to see how this is more productive than doing a "rename method"
> option.

It isn't necessarily more efficient. But most editors don't have a compiler built-in, and the ones that do aren't always practical to use.