Turning Bugs Into Features
Bugs aren't necessarily bad. Instead of squishing those bugs in your code, try turning them into features.
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Join For Freei’m using r# for over a decade now, and it has gotten to the point where i’m actually able to utilize r# bugs to get things working better for me.
in this case, the scenario is using find usages as a refactoring aid. i have a tricky refactoring to do, which requires me to touch several pieces of code. in order to handle this properly, i start by finding usages on the relevant item. in this case, byview.
then i go to each of those code locations and make the required modifications.
so far so good, but on complex scenarios, it is hard to remember which portions i have done and which portions are still left undone. in order to handle this, i ctrl+x, ctrl+z the line i find. r# detects this as a change to the code that invalidates the found usage, and suddenly, i got a nice to-do list with a strikethrough for completed tasks.
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