Comments on: Copy ‘n’ Paste and the incorrigible programmer http://blog.codefront.net/2006/03/10/copy-n-paste-and-the-incorrigible-programmer/ Rails, Firefox, Anime, Mac Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: keith ray http://blog.codefront.net/2006/03/10/copy-n-paste-and-the-incorrigible-programmer/comment-page-1/#comment-24616 keith ray Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:40:00 +0000 http://blog.codefront.net/archives/2006/03/10/copy-n-paste-and-the-incorrigible-programmer/#comment-24616 Perhaps fewer errors if you eschew temporary variables and use smaller methods? And DRY - "don't repeat yourself" (even if copy & paste is easier.) :-) <code> ... DoStuff( request.getFromLocation(), request.getToLocation() ) //compare to DoStuff( request.getFromLocation(), request.getFromLocation() ) ... void DoStuff( String fromLocation(), String toLocation() ) { ... } </code> Perhaps fewer errors if you eschew temporary variables and use smaller methods? And DRY – “don’t repeat yourself” (even if copy & paste is easier.) :-)


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