On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Florian Klämpfl <flor...@freepascal.org> wrote: > Am 30.07.2011 22:54, schrieb Flávio Etrusco: >>>> >>>> Repeating myself, if there isn't something like CodeTools (i.e. only >>>> with text search) is way more difficult to search for operator >>>> declarations. >>> >>> Why? Searching for operator+ is no more difficult than for function add ? >>> >> >> Blanks and linebreaks... Of course if one always use the same editor, >> that supports searching for linebreaks, and often use Regex in it, >> maybe they'll remember whether its Regex flavor uses \b or \s or \w >> for blanks :-/ Of course this is not major, just annoying, since >> you'll rarely need it. > > But the same applies to functions as well? > > nobody provents you to code like > function > > add(...) : ...; > ? > > Searching for add might not be feasible because the symbol could be used > a lot (I know about this because I'am a heavy "jump to symbol by > grep"-user :) >
I would argue that the operator is in practice a little more annoying and, well, unnecessary, but you're right that they can be equally "mismanaged". Best regards, Flávio _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
