Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20090207 18:25], Scott David Daniels (scott.dani...@acm.org) wrote: >> This analysis overlooks the fact that 3.0 _was_ a major change, and is >> likely to grow cut-and-paste solutions to some problems as we switch to >> Unicode strings from byte strings. > > You'd best hope the copied section was thoroughly reviewed otherwise you're > duplicating a flaw across X other sections. And then you also best hope that > whoever finds said flaw and fixes it is also smart enough to check for > similar constructs around the code base. > This is probably preferable to five different developers solving the same problem five different ways and introducing three *different* bugs, no?
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