Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: grokking arch

[Charles Duffy]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:32, Robert Anderson wrote:
> The number "73" for example, exists in no less than 85 of my
> UUID's in one my trees.

But doing a global search/replace on "73" would be silly.

When I write a regular expression to do a search and replace, I make
damn sure that it's not going to match stuff I don't intend it to match.
This means being aware of context and syntax, eyeballing the matches
with grep, etc. If it's for the work tree and I have reason to feel
extra paranoid, I use the fancy language-aware tools built into Eclipse
to only replace references to the specific variable/constant/whatever
than needs renaming.

If you're using the raw number 73 in your sources, unwrapped by a
descriptive variable name, in enough places that you'd do a global
search and replace on it, you've got bigger problems than needing to do
a "tla changes" and possibly fix some taglines before checkin. More
realistic things that one is likely to search and replace inside source
code generally don't fit into [a-f0-9-]{,4} and are much less likely to
generate such collisions.