Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:51:24 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote:
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I refactor constantly during development to avoid code reuse through
cut-n-paste, but once I've got it going, whether it's 1000 or 6000
lines, it doesn't matter as long as it works.
If you've been refactoring during development, and gotten to the point
where it is working,
yes, but
clear and maintainable,
not necessarily
then there's very little refactoring left to do.
Again, not necessarily. I often find it easier to refactor old code
when I'm maintaining it to better understand how to best implement the
change I'm incorporating at the moment. The refactoring certainly may
have been done when the code was originally written, but at that time
refactoring would have only served to pretty it up as it already worked.
I don't think anyone suggests that you refactor
code that doesn't need refactoring.
That's exactly what I read the OP as wanting to do. That's why I was
asking why. So, I think the question becomes, when does code need
refactoring?
Emile
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