On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:13 PM Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Ahh, that might be a regional difference then, because around here, it's possible to pay off some of a debt. That would be why we were talking past each other. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list