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Tuesday March 18, 2003
01:52 PM
What is a feature and what is bloat?
I posted a simple meditation over on Perlmonks this morning: When is a feature bloat?. As is often the case I got a nice rep for the node and one or two answers, but not a nice discussion with lots of ideas.
At the moment I've had two suggestions, but I wonder if there are other ideas, that I've not tapped.
- Break the module down into parts and let people load only the bits they want.
- Look at the code and decide which interface is more awkward to not have, and provide it first.
So unless I get a screaming hoard of people demanding changes, I'll put in my module what I want, and see what happens.
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Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
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Bloat or no ... (Score:2)
Joel Spolsky, of Joel On Software [joelonsoftware.com] fame, likes to point out that many software companies realize that people frequently use only 10% of the functionality for a given piece of "bloatware". The software company then proceeds to build a product with only that 10%, thinking they'll have a lean, mean, fighting machine.
Uh, but what's that '10%'? I guarantee that a journalist, project manager and screenwriter are going to have radically different ideas of what they want in Microsoft Word and they're all going t
Re:Bloat or no ... (Score:2)
Again I must thank you for your helpful input, you may recall that it was your helpful comments [perlmonks.org] over on Perlmonks that helped me launch this module in the first place!
Side note:
Over the months I've read your journal [perl.org], and really become infected with the idea of testing things, most of the actual changes to the distribution of my module [cpan.org] on CPAN have been the additions of tests.
So far I've been bitten with earlier changes to the module, not detected until after I've uploaded them to CPAN. As a result I'v
-- "It's not magic, it's work..."
Re:Bloat or no ... (Score:2)
Well, I suppose it's time to follow up on those helpful comments, then. Amongst other things, I realized that my suggestion to provide a default value to $mode to avoid 'undefined' warnings when testing with a regex was pretty useless since you already had if($mode) before that. That, of course, is a minor nit.
My major problem with my advice was when I criticized the following:
$self->{_xsl_string} = _http_get($uri);
I didn't like that because your helper function wasn't a method. As a result, it