Darren New wrote:

> I was under the impression that Smalltalk was the first system to have 
> refactoring built into the UI.  I might be wrong about that, as I can't 
> find anything online easily backing up that assertion.
> 
> Nevermind.

Rick-click that method name, select "rename", it renames it in all your 
code.

Although IIRC, there was some catch to it... I think it might be that it 
does a simepl find-and-replace, without awareness as to WHICH CLASS 
you're dealing with. So if class X and some unrelated class Y both have 
a "foo" method and you rename it to "bar", it's renamed for *both* 
classes. Which usually isn't what you want.

But then, we're talking about a weakly-typed language, so unfortunately 
it's kind of unavoidable...

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