On 2014-04-11 11:34, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> That's equivalent to being told "Don't ever delete any of your > >> code, just comment it out". I don't care who's saying that, it's > >> bad advice. > > > > The correct analogy: "Dont ever delete content from the > > repository" > > No -- the repository is the email archive. (Your inbox, perhaps.) > You don't keep a copy of the entire repo in every source file.
Clearly you've not seen some of the corporate code-bases I've had to touch. «shudder» I still have nightmares about vast swaths of code commented out or "#ifdef 0"ed out. Then again, since they used Visual Source Safe, it might have been the smarter/safer option ;-) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
