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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don’t understand too. Are you suggesting me to drop bunch of features in the product?

[–] tyler 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That means it’s not easy to delete. So your initial premise is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

No, that means you falling into author’s bait where they misuse term “delete”. Refactoring is not equal to deleting. One can be result of another. But the truth is that extendable code needs to be modular to be extendable. And modular code is easy to refactor. Author couldn’t not name it “Write code that is easy to refactor, not easy to extend” coz it’s even more dumb

[–] samus7070 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the responder means that duplicate code is usually easy to refactor into single methods. Typically I see copy pasted code that is changed just a little bit. However much of a duplicated function can be broken into smaller functions and the redundant code removed in favor of calling into the functions. Often what is left then becomes easier to reason about and refactor accordingly. I love the PRs that I make which delete more code than I add but still manage to add functionality. It doesn’t happen often but it’s fun when it does.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Right, but my initial comment was about article’s statement being wrong. Refactoring in the way you described will make code harder to delete which is bad according to the article.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like you read the first paragraph only

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago

No, title only