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You know what really sucks?
When I have a method that returns a
Foo
and like 300 places it gets called.And then I change it to return an ever so slightly different
Bar
Ah, now I need to go and update the code in 300 places cause the return type changed.
"Can't you just
sed
your codebase?"Maybe, but it could cause some serious unintended dawizard
The solution to this problem (and many others) is to use an IDE / editor which supports refactoring like that. Which is pretty much every IDE / editor unless you're using some very obscure language I think.
anything that supports your language's language server protocol
Yup, that's what I meant. I really don't see why anyone wouldn't use it nowadays.