Volker Stolz

Given todays stupid IDEs, if you refactor something, which possibly may also include refactoring a signature by adding an argument, the whole editor starts glowing red, and there’s no way you can find a place where to start without breaking anything. (There might actually be, but I don’t want to go there via a new unused method).

Is there a way (again, in VSCode) to say: “don’t bother with syntax-highlighting”, followed by “now I’m finished, please tell me what I missed”?

#VSCode #Refactoring

Apr 10 at 2:37pmIceCubesApp
Show threadPeter Sommerlad2d ago
Fowler's Refactoring book tells how to do this:
Add the new function signature, keep the old signature, move tge body to the new signature and adapt, delegate from the old to the new function. adapt call sites incrementally. iirc