On 4/7/09 1:58 PM, Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
> Also sprach David Gerard:
>   >  All are worth refactoring, but you have to convince different people
>   >  it's a good idea :-)
>
> Noted. So far, I've taken the "black box" approach to Wikipedia's
> markup: an external perspective allows me to optimize code without
> having to consider organizational constraints inside the black box.
> Also, I don't really know how the internal systems work,

I just want to point out this is a *totally valid* and *very valuable* 
approach -- sometimes knowing that something would be hard or impossible 
to do with the current internals is a needed kick in the pants to 
refactor something.

> and the
> braces in the template code scare me.

Me too. ;)

-- brion

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