On 2/11/20 5:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > But you CAN rewrite code such that it reduces technical debt. You can > refactor code to make it more logical. You can update things to use > idioms that better express the concepts you're trying to represent > (maybe because those idioms require syntactic features that didn't > exist, or simply because you didn't know about them when you first > wrote the code). Maybe you'll still have SOME debt, but that doesn't > mean it's never reduced. > > Debt is not a binary state.
I agree with that. But your reply to my other comment didn't say that. it said "it CAN be paid off" which is a binary thing. Debt is paid off (no longer existing) or it's not. Debt can be paid down and reduced of course. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
