D Compiler as a Library

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Apr 19 11:58:45 PDT 2012


On 2012-04-19 17:00, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 14:55:50 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> The question is, though, whether »perfect« renaming support is really
>> required, or if a defensive solution warning on potential ambiguities
>> isn't already useful enough for most cases.
>>
>> David
>
> "Perfect" support is impossible, I guess. For example, if a library has
> been released, a rename would cause API breaking changes. But for code
> under control of user which is doing the raname it is possible to
> provide customization what to rename (ReSharper does that, for example).

That's not up to the IDE to decide. If the user wants to break the API 
the IDE should let him/her.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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