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Re:DRY is an over-rated programming principle? by ryathal on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:11AM (#32013635)
Isn't that playing a little loose with definitions? if you have 10 "repetitions" that don't need to change simultaneously they aren't really repetitions in the first place. Just because a dumb analyzer says you have a 10 line block of identical code in 10 places doesn't mean it's actually identical.
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Re:DRY is an over-rated programming principle? by sirmarksalot on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:54PM (#32019260)
You're restating the article's point. Naive DRY says make the dumb analyzer happy by abstracting out the coincidental similarities. If you work in a place that recognizes that this can be a red herring, then great, but a lot of developers and teams don't make room for that nuance. That is what the article is arguing against.
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