In FileMaker, because it's inherent to the way they do it, I've never heard of it breaking. It's kind of a chickens vs. pigs situation -- where for breakfast the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. If something goes wrong with safe rename, they just issue a note saying "we're looking into it, don't use it for now." If something went wrong with FileMaker's renaming code, no one would be able to do anything until it was fixed -- not edit a script, maybe not even edit a layout. Not that it ever has been broken in Eclipse, just that the standard is different. It also goes to the mindset of the developer: in FileMaker it's just understood that you might rename something to make it clearer. For example if you and I work on a database together and you use plural column names and I use singular, when we inevitably fight to the death ;-) the victor would blithely change all the offending column names, without thinking about the (non-existent) consequences.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net>wrote: > Geoff- > > Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 1:33:15 AM, you wrote: > > > That sounds brittle -- or in practice does it Just Work? > > Well, it would probably be foolish to say it *always* works, but it's > done the job for me when I've used it. I've been cautious, though, and > done a dry run first to see what was going to change. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
