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I came here to quote that same piece, but for a different purpose. I am in complete agreement with him.

I think writing grep-friendly code is a good thing. I do my best to make all my Perl code easily grepped, it just makes debugging infinitely easier.

Would a search tool other than grep change how you write code?

Probably not. I just said "grep" because it's such a basic standard, I really meant "easily searchable from a command line."

What about a syntax-aware search? If this were as responsive as grep, wouldn't that be better? I think so. I use one in Smalltalk all the time.