Overloading/Inheritance issue

[Bruno Medeiros]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> (The closest I recall is "refactoring" C++ code, but that's 
>>>> something where the CLI won't help you either)
>>>
>>> Sure it does, the CLI has very powerful text processing tools 
>>> available to it.
>>
>> Maybe for rename refactoring. Most other refactoring operations need 
>> an actual semantic tool, you can't do it with CLI text processing tools.
> 
> Yes, you can. It's just that tools for this are not currently written.
> 

I didn't say do it in the CLI, I said do it in the CLI *with 
(tradicional) text processing tools* (grep, sed, awk, etc.).

>> But that is a moot point: when you do such rename refactoring, most of 
>> the times the IDE built-in search-replace facilities are just as good 
>> as using the CLI, if not better. For example in Visual Studio C++ I 
>> find it more convenient to do search replace in the IDE, since it 
>> already knows which C++ files belong to the project and which don't.
> 
> Are you saying that Visual Studio is better at refactoring C++ code than 
> sed? :boggles:
> 

For the common rename-refactoring, yes. Are you saying it's not? :3


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