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Phlip wrote:

> Kenny Tilton wrote:
> 
> 
>>I can refactor perfect code, but I cannot clean it up.
> 
> 
> The clean spot moves over time. What worked today might not be good enough
> tomorrow.

My point was that "cleaning up" cannot be a synonym for refactoring, 
because sometimes I have a very nice function which I eventually 
discover contains some subprocessing which is desirable as a standalone 
function, or undesirable in calls by a new client. Then I take what had 
been a prime to my mind and factor it, such that the original function 
now takes a new parameter (to suppress the subprocessing) or it now 
calls a new function to do the subprocessing, which new function is now 
available to clients.

That is not cleaning up.

-- 
Kenny

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