Chris Muller-3 wrote
> I don't know if its just romantic, starry-eyed mountain climbers or
> intentional false-propaganda

Or both! ;)


Chris Muller-3 wrote
> This example is bunk

Well, you're partly right - the clean version is not due totally to FS.
You'd be more right if human beings were rational beings. But we're not,
we're driven by emotion. I /feel/ bad when I look at FD, because I find it
ugly and confusing. Therefore, I would be reluctant to refactor that code
and it probably would still be in the state it is. But I was excited to have
well-factored, intuitive FS objects to work with, which boiled into me
searching the system for ugly code to clean. That example was a quote from a
previous post in my excitement after cleaning and making the system better.
Beauty and simplicity reverberates out well beyond the initial objects...
that's good enough for me.

Sean



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