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Go to definition is insanely useful. Just because you "write good software," and are able to put everything in exactly the correct place, and find everything without it, doesn't mean that everyone else does, or the guy next to you does, or that you aren't wasting your time by not using it. Go to definition isn't just for multiple inheritance hierarchies. It can be as simple as getting to another method in the same file 50 lines away, or to a child class's method which is in exactly the right spot, and you'd be easily able to find. It's not about where it takes you, it's about the speed at which it takes you there. You press one button and you're back to getting through the control flow of the code without interrupting your thought process by having to search for a method. Press another button and you're back to where that method ends. Yes, you don't need it, but the speed that it offers you is invaluable a lot of times.
parent DatBear 8 years ago

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