On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > 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 ;-)
I think Steven was agreeing with me that it's bad advice, rather than that it never happens... There's an expression on The Daily WTF: "Enterprise happens". Covers this situation well, IMO. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Enterprise-Dependency.aspx ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
