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Writing some code that may already exist?

It's wild friday afternoon idea time but it's occured to me that a very cool R# feature could be a feature to keep tabs on you and suggest that the class/function your writing may have have previously been written and suggest posible matches for refactoring. A nifty way of doing this could be score up the OM of your code and suggest possible odd's of a match based on some bayesian scoring. I see this being super useful for those with slippery memories who forget after a couple of hours of coding that a simliar peice of code may already exist and for those working with leagacy code who may be working with thousands of lines and with out the heat seeking test suite.

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Noticias externas said:

It's wild friday afternoon idea time but it's occured to me that a very cool R# feature could

# August 3, 2007 12:56 PM

Haacked said:

Well that's what our SmartSearch feature of the Koders plugin does www.koders.com/info.aspx

It does a background search while you're writing code to see if it can find similar methods. It's not as sophisticated as you've described...yet.

# August 3, 2007 4:15 PM
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