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0 pointsFlow13y ago0 comments

I find that with a good IDE I can regard every name as a temporary name till I feel I clearly know what the best name would be.

A bit like a sketcher could draw a few lines and see where that leads.

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msbarnett13y ago

That's less a property of IDEs than a side-effect of working with extremely static languages that are amenable to that kind of global-rename analysis.

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0 pointsFlow13y ago0 comments

I find that with a good IDE I can regard every name as a temporary name till I feel I clearly know what the best name would be.

A bit like a sketcher could draw a few lines and see where that leads.

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msbarnett13y ago

That's less a property of IDEs than a side-effect of working with extremely static languages that are amenable to that kind of global-rename analysis.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse