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Code-generators/macros should provide a way to "bundle" renaming
Hello!
This is similar to https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/56518, but for another core IDE functionality: Renaming.
I am worried that the current macro proposal fails to solve the renaming issue.
One way code-generators and the upcoming macros often work is by generating a new identifier, based on a user-defined identifier.
Like @example class UserDefined vs userDefinedGenerated, where the latter is generated based on a string transformation of the former.
The problem is, renaming renaming one of the two identifiers won't rename the other.
- Renaming
@example class UserDefinedwill correctly update the generate code, but any existing reference touserDefinedGeneratedwill stay unchanged. Users will then have to modify those by hand ; which can be very tedious and error prone. - Renaming
userDefinedGeneratedwill not updateUserDefined; which means re-generating the code will revert our rename.
It would be great for the IDE to be able to rename both the generated and user-defined identifiers at once.