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Flow on July 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Three Months with Sublime Text 2

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.

msbarnett on July 15, 2012 [–]

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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