On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> Hi folks. Today I were talking with Noury and from our point of view, there 
> is a bug in the Class references. 
> 
> Forget about refactoring browser. Right now, if you look for the references 
> of a class, it ONLY searches literal matches in the source code of methods. 
> It doesn't take into account for example if you have subclasses. In the 
> abstract speaking, if there are subclasses, isn't that considered a reference 
> ?

Yes I agree got bitten by this one.

> Even more, the tool would be much more useful if it can find such 
> information. Several times, I look for references of a class I don't know and 
> that I think it can be removed. I look references, zero. Excellent, I can 
> removed. But then....I realized it has a subclass and that class is 
> referenced in 200000 places...fresh example: 
> DummySuperclassOfColorPickerMorph.
> 
> In summary, it would be great if subclasses can be tacking into account also. 
> Or at least I don't know, create another menu entry for that...
> 
> I am the only one who think that ?  what is your opinion ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mariano
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