# from Fergal Daly
# on Friday 23 January 2009 02:07:

>The point is that you want to declare your intention independently
>from taking the action. If you declare the plan alongside performing
>it, then your planning becomes subject to bugs.

I'm sure that for every reason someone can cite about needing a 
statically coded numeric plan, I can point out in detail a method of 
refactoring such that the plan becomes a number which is at least 
closer to the data involved.  If you generate the list of things to 
check, code in a test that this list is 7.

You simply need to assert what you mean to assert *where* you mean to 
assert it.  That might be a static number in one place while in another 
place you might simply check for matched sets and so on.

--Eric
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"Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value."
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