Jelle Druyts

I don't have any experience with C# but I can say I'd give my left `fill in a body part here` for that feature in a Java IDE. JBuilder kinda supports this (smart-swap), but it doesn't always work.

Prove you wrong? You've done that yourself already imho, cases like you gave an example of (i <= length - 1) are exactly the cases were I need/want/wish an edit&continue-like feature in Java for. In fact, those are the only cases, as for any larger changes, I'd want to re-run my Unit tests first of course ;) I think I spend 30% of my time watching Tomcat start up again after changing those annoying small bugs. But then again, this is just the opinion of a Java programmer... (and Tomcat boots rather slow :( )

I can actually tell you that this is a very good option that will be build into the new VS.
We work here on a ver big project where you need to attach the aspnet service each time to your debugger ... of you need to stop everything just to change one letter (or a minus or so) you loose a lot of time.

Not all projects are small ... don't forget that

-Nico,

Very good point on your unit tests, I like your thinking :-)

-Bart,

Don't get me wrong, I'm not pretending all projects are small. I've worked on projects that take an hour to build so believe me, I know. But I do think that you can factor the solution *you're currently working on* to be quite small most of the time.

But I see your points in both cases: it can take a while if your project is hosted in any sort of container (be it Tomcat e.a. or ASP.NET) and that can make it very annoying to make a minor code change.

That said, I'm just afraid that with this feature, you'll be less likely to think before you code and just run it and adapt it 'until it works' (or seems to work).

I go with your words Druyts. Though I am a C# developer for the past 2 yrs, I do agree that this feature could very well have an impact on the programmer's thought process.