On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 12:31:24 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:

T foo(T)(T x) {
 return x.something();
}

int something(int x) {
 return 1;
}

float something(float x) {
 return 1.0;
}

Now... go and rename the first function named "something". What do you do with "x.something()" inside the template... rename it or not?

1. Ask the user or
2. Check if there is an instance of foo!int which refers to something. If so and there is no other instance, that refers to another something: rename it. 3. If there in another instance: Ask the user to rename one, all, none.

I would go ReSharper way: present user a tree with all occurrences of related symbols and checkboxes to include or exclude each. Or, in this particular case, display a list of affected types and checkboxes for each. This isn't VERY user friendly, though, but very flexible and reasonable. Give warnings if necessary.

Semantic analysis phase would provide information whether symbol is actually related, or only has the same name (but different semantics and scope).

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