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2009/2/24 chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org>: > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:38:27 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > >> Hmm, I wonder how much of a problem it would be to fix those >> instead of replacing FF outright… FF is some really ugly code >> anyway… > > I tried to refactor it seven years ago. There's a tremendous amount of > duplication and near-duplication (its two largest functions are very close in > code and behavior), but the lack of encapsulation and its difficult test suite > kept getting in the way. > > If someone had access to several very different filesystems and platforms, > it's a solid month of work to refactor its internals into something more > maintainable. > > That wasn't a good use of my time back then. I'm not sure it would go any > faster now. And as i recall you *did* do some work on it at the time.... Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next