From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: customize hideshow.el?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 06:44:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <767f9dfe-3c49-23bd-4ee2-eb6cbb6f78da@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8Uxy3pM43MJS9fvyj52a8YdOorbvqh_6w7MepOO3d5inQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2017-08-13 18:58, Yuri Khan wrote:
> You can treat the symptom with a painkiller such as hideshow. But the
> root cause is better treated by extracting a
> function/procedure/subroutine.
The OP seems to be refactoring existing code, so I'm not sure what this comment is getting at :/
Sure, ideally all code would be clean and nice and there would be no need for tools that work around ugly code. In practice, though, it's hard to get people to agree on exactly what clean and nice code is, and many of us end up reading a lot of code they didn't write, cannot change, and don't necessarily like. In these cases, "treating the symptoms with hideshow" sounds like a very reasonable approach.
Clément.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-14 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-13 16:46 customize hideshow.el? Stephen Leake
2017-08-13 16:58 ` Yuri Khan
2017-08-14 4:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2017-08-13 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-13 19:35 ` Stephen Leake
2017-08-27 12:07 ` Stephen Leake
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