In article <[email protected]>, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Of course. That's the point of describing something as a âcode smellâ: > it may have exceptions where the smell does not indicate an actual > problem, but those are not the normal case where the smell is > encountered. More often, it indicates a problem that should be fixed. An apt analogy is refrigerator smell. Sometimes it means the leftovers from 3 months ago have evolved into a sentient life form. Sometimes it just means you've got a piece of Roquefort.
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