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Refactoring considered harmful, sometimes

James Gosling · 18 Feb 2011

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  1. For most people, this class of transformations should be avoided like the plague they are. But for folks like me who all too often need to do intense tuning, they are necessary. Can they be made cleaner? It's a pity that refactoring is viewed purely as something done in an IDE.

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