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  1. Jon Reid @[email protected] ·

    We needed to extend a component with new behavior. Rather than trying to _think_ our way forward by designing something clever, we created a copy and added the new behavior there.

    Yes, copy and paste. Loads of duplication. Then we made the code work, with nested if-else blocks. Yucky, but it worked.

    THEN we went to town, doing mostly mindless #Refactoring. It was like the Gilded Rose #CodeKata, but in real life! #EvolutionaryDesign

    #refactoring #codekata #evolutionarydesign