On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:02:59AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:58:11AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > Once you've done that you can add "Refactoring" to the list of > > > buzzwords on your resume. :) > > > > I think installhtml teeters heavily on the brink of "Rewriting" > > instead of "Refactoring". It hasn't changed much since 1997. > > Refactoring is just rewriting in small pieces. By doing it in small > pieces, you have a much better chance of succeeding and of staying > backwards compatible.
We are talking about a script that is run once by the Perl installation process, and by nobody else. There is no other backwards compatibility than producing the right output files: it's not like we have care about an API or the like. > If nothing else, a good scrubbing out will leave it in a sane state so > someone can fathom it more easily to do a rewrite. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
