Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
by hughw on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @07:16PM
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It was a hard-coded value before. The OP just wanted to leave it as a hard-coded value. The world would have been just as hard-coded before his change as after, and it would have been improved as little by the change. The policies in place seem to set the perfect against the good.
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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
by Gibbon1 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @10:28PM
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My take on this is modifying the hard coded constant was not a functional change to the code base. Making it configurable was a functional change. One shouldn't make functional changes to old battle tested code unless you have to. If you do that it's just risk.