rename

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Editorial note

One way to hide all of the zeroes is to rename (reclassify) the currency denominations.

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An instance of renaming.

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noun

An instance of renaming.

verb

(transitive) To give a new name to.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rename.

noun

An instance of renaming.

verb

(transitive) To give a new name to.

Example sentences

One way to hide all of the zeroes is to rename (reclassify) the currency denominations.

If you rename a table it may drop the table losing all data, then create a new one.

Copy the class and rename it so you have them side by side in the same file.

But why it doesn't still let me to rename volumes as something else than single drive letters C, D, E...

You could rebase the code by undoing and redoing the rename, taking into account new usages of the renamed item, etc.

It has no way of knowing a rename from 2 unrelated tables.

The ability to rename a function or class attribute, accross modules, has been a great help maintaining programs larger than a few thousands lines.

Followed shortly by the petition to rename China to Asia.

For example, if you add a field to a struct in C, you can rename its other fields, and then fix up every usage in your program.

I spend most my time doing find-in-files or jump-to-definition or rename-across-this-project.

I've been a (large) customer of compose.io for several years, and since the rename to compose support of our MongoDB clusters has really gone downhill.

As a little side node I'd personally rename main.go to core.go.

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When you say "Java 100% compatibility", does it mean you can rename a.java to.kotlin and kotlin compile would never complain?

It's also interesting you say that Microsoft managed to rename the web "Internet Explorer" because in Tim Berners-Lee's book he says that after Mosaic was launched and was beginning to become popular the people behind Netscape were trying to rename the web themselves and he wasn't very happy about that.

Meanwhile the top GitHub issue for your referenced Python project (also on the HN home page is): "Unable to run script with default arguments, get an invalid syntax exception." I poked in to see if he'd managed to rename "avconf" to "avconv" yet.

Among more recent projects, I made a "green" script to encode videos at night while electricity is cheaper, a tool to extract, rename and classify rared / ziped nested ebooks (obtained from dubious sources;-), another tool to analyze and optimize my chances at winning on football (soccer) bets (let me say it didn't work very well).