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		maccard 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Code gets native LSP support Using Grep or regex is textual refactoring. If you want to rename every reference to a type Foo, how do you is that without touching any variables named foo, or any classes named FooBar The answer is use tools that have semantic info to rename things.

true_religion 19 days ago [–]

I often want them to rename all the textual references too because otherwise you have bunch of variables using the old name as a reference.

Even though it has no semantic significance to the compiler, it does for all the human beings who will read it and get confused.

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