Re^2: Legacy code question

[Your Mother]

While I agree philosophically with you and haukex, I have seen quite a fair bit of code in the wild “written” by users like bigup401. Code that never made sense, was written without use strict, often worked by side-effect or accident or only on a narrow subset of possible input, and is full of no-ops left-over from writing code by cut-and-paste testing.

[karlgoethebier]

"...writing code by cut-and-paste testing."

To be honest: This was the way i coded my Java stuff the last three years i was in office.

A funny side-effect of this practice was my my best node ever on PM.

Best regards, Karl

[Your Mother]

Indeed. The more confusing or the worse the documentation for a library is, the more likely I am guilty of the same thing. I endeavor however to both clean it up, attempt to enable the most strict checking, and leave tests behind after I finally understand the situation.