On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Brian Rowe <r...@muxspace.com> wrote: > Another point to consider is that copying someone else's code forces you to > become a maintainer of the copied code. If there are any bug > fixes/enhancements/what-have-you in the original you won't get those updates. > So now you own the copied code and need to consider the cost of the codebase > diverging (from the original).
Sometimes that's a good thing - you're equally insulated from the original maintainer changing the function to work in a way that you don't like. Again, I'm not arguing that copy-and-paste is necessarily the right solution, but it's not necessarily the wrong solution either - it depends on the context. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
