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Re: [O] Elisp programming style
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: [O] Elisp programming style |
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Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:13:55 +0700 |
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>> Would that be considered bad style from the original author, or is that
>> up to personal choice and not considered a problem?
>>
>
> Not a problem - you can't predict the future. You do the best you can
> with your current knowledge. You can always refactor in the future:
> that's one reason that having the source code around is important. When
> you refactor, you may be cursing the original author for the "bad"
> decicions, but c'est la vie: at least, you have chosen a system where
> *you* can do that and not depend on a third party: they might not even
> be alive, let alone willing to do what you want.
I think this is probably the key. As a non-professional programmer who
has gone on safari through the org-mode code (though this obviously
applies to a lot of elisp packages), I think incremental growth is
responsible for a lot of oddities. Refactoring is possible in theory,
but for fast-growing packages it never becomes a priority, and my guess
is by this point there are parts of org where even Carsten would tread
very lightly. It's not a disaster, but it does lead to regression bugs,
which I think we're seeing.
Entropy is contravened, however: witness the push towards an org test
suite, and the production of a generic exporter in org…
Slightly OT, sorry,
Eric
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