Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > Not a problem - you can't predict the future. You do the best you can > with your current knowledge. You can always refactor in the future: > that's one reason that having the source code around is important. When > you refactor, you may be cursing the original author for the "bad" > decicions, but c'est la vie: at least, you have chosen a system where > *you* can do that and not depend on a third party: they might not even > be alive, let alone willing to do what you want.
Thats really great about Emacs lisp - everything is so easily accessible, it seems like no big deal to change something. I still have to get rid of the reflex to factor out every duplication of code that I see. Lisp is not Java... cheers -- Thorsten