From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T00:05:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23956] Re: RCR: Fun with attribute shortcuts solves RCR #3 and more

Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:

> In every system there's a tension between writing code that is familiar to
> everyone at first sight, and writing code that requires some more
> knowledge but has some _special qualities_.
> 
> Those latter would be: more obvious at _second_ sight (PoLS), shorter
> code, no redundancy (the DRY principle), written in the words the author
> used to think about the code ("pseudo-code" qualities), less bugs in the
> first place ("debugging by prevention"), easier to debug, easier to modify
> and more uses for the same piece of code (flexibility).

These are two important paragraphs.


Dave