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@ 2012-01-11 18:18         ` Christopher Faylor
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From: Christopher Faylor @ 2012-01-11 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 05:16:15PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>I think it is useful to consider this history when reviewing a patch, as there
>are a couple of dangers this avoids:
>
>Are we going in circles?  Are we fixing one bug just to re-introduce another
>bug which has already been fixed?
>
>Are we doing in the wrong direction? Adding special case on top of special
>case, increasing the complexity of the code, is often a sign that something is
>wrong with the approach taken.

Somebody has to speak with Jon TURNEY.  He's talking CRAZY again.

cgf

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