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> with all due respect, it sounds like you have the privilege of working in some relatively tidy codebases (and I'm jealous!)

I wish, but no. I've found people will make a mess of everything. Which is why I don't trust solutions that rely on humans having more discipline, like what this article advocates.

In any situation where grep is your last saviour, you cannot rely on the greppability of the code. You'll have to check and double check everything, and still accept the risk of errors.



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