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Re:Most of the code you write, has probably been written bef... by dyeje on Thursday December 29, 2016 @10:28AM (#13277754)
Seems like it would encourage bad design. You should be keeping your code DRY by creating reusable functions in the first place. If it's across repos, then you should probably make one of the repos usable as a library.
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Re:Most of the code you write, has probably been written bef... by Apsion on Thursday December 29, 2016 @06:46PM (#13281266)
Agreed - copy and paste can definitely be problematic.

DRY typically is discussed as it relates to a single project. What are your thoughts on this? Code reused across projects or repos is not the same. We can and should have duplicated code but why write it from scratch? For a simple example if I always want to have an Avatar in a navbar, why not make it easy to find and reuse in another project.

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