Posix vs. Windows

[Paulo Pinto]

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.