On 2/11/20 6:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:13 PM Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 2/11/20 5:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> But you CAN rewrite code such that it reduces technical debt. You can >>> refactor code to make it more logical. You can update things to use >>> idioms that better express the concepts you're trying to represent >>> (maybe because those idioms require syntactic features that didn't >>> exist, or simply because you didn't know about them when you first >>> wrote the code). Maybe you'll still have SOME debt, but that doesn't >>> mean it's never reduced. >>> >>> Debt is not a binary state. >> >> I agree with that. But your reply to my other comment didn't say that. >> it said "it CAN be paid off" which is a binary thing. Debt is paid off >> (no longer existing) or it's not. Debt can be paid down and reduced of >> course. > > Ahh, that might be a regional difference then, because around here, > it's possible to pay off some of a debt. That would be why we were > talking past each other.
Yup I just came to that conclusion while typing a reply to your other post! My apologies. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
