[Lazarus] Mac OS X or iPhone applications created with Lazarus

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Codetools has a feature, that tries to keep track of renamed or altered 
declaration of procedures.

If you change the name of a procedure inside the object declaration, and 
then press code-completion => Codetools will see the old method in the 
implementation.. It will detect that the old method no longer has a 
declaration, and assume it must have been renamed.
It changes the old implementation to match the new declaration

type
  TA = Class
  public
    //Procedure bar(a: Integer);
    procedure foo; virtual;
  end;

implementation
procedure TA.bar(a: Integer);
begin
end;

In this example TA.bar will be updated to TA.foo.

It would be create if it was possible to disable this feature. (I'll 
bring it up for discussion here, before filing a feature request)

Personally I think this doubles the refactor/"rename identifier" tool. 
And I had several occasions where this feature did more harm than use.

For example when I extract parts of a class, into another class, I have 
to remove a lot of methods and introduce some new ones. (For the new 
ones I use code-completion)
Without this function, if I forget the body of an old/removed method, 
the compiler gives a warning.
With it, code tools has renamed the "not-deleted-implementation" to one 
of the new methods; and I spend valuable time to find out where that 
code comes from.

Best Regards
Martin