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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  mattiase@acm.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 09:42:31 -0400
> 
> > That's unrelated.  I was talking about modifying _existing_ code, not
> > about writing new code.
> 
> In my experience, a lot of new code is written by looking at old code
> (witness all the quoted lambdas around that can be found in "new" code).

Which is why we have code reviews.  Witness the many messages by
yourself and others that comment on those practices we are unhappy
about.