On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 09:32:20AM +1100, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Nicholas Nethercote > <n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I was wondering what people think is the worst piece of code in the > > entire Mozilla codebase. I'll leave the exact meanings of "worst" and > > "piece of code" unspecified... > > Thanks for the replies so far! I deliberately left this question vague > to see what kind of responses people would give. But mostly I'm > interested in code whose awfulness impacts users in a serious way. > Ones where refactoring/rewriting efforts would be valuable. That > excludes code that no longer exists :) > > With this in mind, a function that is hideous but non-buggy and > doesn't cause maintenance problems (e.g. because the hideousness > doesn't leak too far) wouldn't qualify as bad. In comparison, a > sub-system with frequent subtle correctness issues would be very bad.
For that I'd tend to agree with ehsan editor/ and the selection bits in layout/. RDF is more terrible, but probably less important and its more a problem of removal than of refactoring. Trev > > So I'd be interested in suggestions along these lines. Feel free to > email me privately if you prefer. > > Nick > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
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