refactoring using parser

replying to "Peng Yu" [email protected]

The Rename Refactoring is currently available in Eclipse CDT along with a
few other refactorings.

Some plug-in refactoring tools may be available to you if you are using
certain versions of Visual Studio.

What you can often do when refactoring C++ code [and you don't have a
refactoring tool] is to rely on the compiler to find all the code you want
to change.

To change the name of a class (or function, etc.), go ahead and change its
name and then compile and look at all the errors you get. This will find
find all places that were using the old class name, and not give false
matches like a global search-and-replace might do.  Of course, you will get
a LOT of other errors cascading from the name change, so depending on the
code size and complexity, a careful search-and-replace may be the faster
alternative.

Sometimes relying on the compiler can fail: a "change-function-signature"
refactoring could continue to compile even when you want it not to because
of implicit type conversions.

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