[e-lang] An attack on a mint

[Mark Seaborn]

Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:

> I would agree that having a unit test to check this condition would
> be valuable. However, in my experience, unit tests get lost much
> faster than comments.

What do you mean by "lost"?  Do you find tests get removed because
they are hard to maintain, or are they simply not run?

> I must ask, what is refactoring? If I have done it, it wasn't under
> that name.

Transforming code in a way that preserves its behaviour, usually done
by hand, in order to make it easier to change and maintain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refactoring

Regards,
Mark