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It varies by codebase, project, and most importantly, who you expect to work with and then maintain it later.

The problem is that TIMTOWTDI is a maintainance headache. Anyone who wants to abuse it forces you to have all maintainance work done by someone who has more expertise than the regular programmer. Not the same, because someone who is merely the same may just know a different set of tricks, but better so that they are likely to know all of the tricks that the first show-off used.

The answer is to decide which ways to do it you will settle for based on other factors, and to stick to them so that someone else can pick up the code and be brought up to speed in a reasonable amount of time. Having people who know lots more ways to do it is fine and good and may be a good thing (knowing your choices in advance makes it easier to pick a good set of choices to stick to), but actually using them all all of the time is a bad thing to do unless you are trying to be hard to understand.


In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: A Perl aptitude test by tilly
in thread A Perl aptitude test by Jonathan

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