On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 05:36:18 -0700 (PDT)
brogoff <brogoff@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> In general, I agree that this can be a design error, but refactorings that
> are reasonable for toy code posted during an internet email discussion may not
> make sense when we're talking about files that are tens of thousands of lines
> long even in very high level languages. Scale changes everything.

Well my particular problem was definitely not "toy code posted 
during an internet email discussion" but a serious piece of
that has already grown to about 3000 lines. Yes its still 
small but in this case refactoring was definitely the best
solution.

Erik
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