When renaming a symbol VA should look into it's symbol list and ask the user whether he is sure about the new name if the new symbol already exists there.
Are you talking about renaming classes? For renaming local variables, class members (functions and variables), and various other cases you will often want and have duplicate names.
Even renaming classes, namespaces complicates visibility.
It is an interesting idea, but it needs a bit of thought before I put in a feature request
Now imagine you're in the .h(pp) file, and want to rename foo::m_a to foo::a. I think VAX should detect cases where the rename produces that kind of ambiguity and at least warn the user.
Use the source, Luke!
Edited by - hotzenplotz on Oct 29 2007 12:57:29 PM
Unfortunately I am wondering what effects implementing this would have. You would need to check every parameter, every local and global variable, in every function (and file for globals) where the class member variable is used.
My main concern at the moment is the edge cases. If people start to rely on this, and they will, they are going to expect it to be accurate and robust. I am wondering how easy it would be to achieve this.
Fail safe rename
Posted - Oct 22 2007 : 11:10:03 AM
