> Ironically, it is exactly the people who have maintained software > that give the advice "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Never doubted this... > The spirit of the advice is that changes, including bug fixes, > sometimes introduce bugs. As the complexity of software grows, > few people have the time or expertise to verify that a change won't > break something else. I agree with this :) > Every rule has exceptions. When it makes sense, we certainly > rewrite code to make it easier to understand and maintain. In > fact, Nelson has asked us to do that in his code review comments. Thanks, I just wanted to let you know about this. This comment might have grown too much into an argument. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
