Many of the contributions to this thread have struck me as moralistic,
disingenuous, or ignorant. (It's hard to know which.) Worse, they have
almost all reflected synchronic rather than diachronic thinking.
Binyamin did, however, get it right.
When I am developing and testing authorized code, I often make use of
'illicit' plumbing/mechanisms to get my work done. Later, of course, I
remove this machinery; but I keep it available for subsequent maintenance
use.
I have in fact institutionalized this approach using a private framing macro
trhat specifies either diag=no, the default, or diag=yes, which generates
such machinery.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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