Re: Bad news from the module/environment front

[Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>]

> Clever code is maintainable to the author (usually).
> Mental processes that went in to creating it are far more easily
> remembered than trying to grok the result from scratch.
> But in a group project (which Guile is and SCM isn't),
> that's irrelevant, no?

Yes, it's irrelevant.  Ian Taylor always says he'll choose
maintainability over features any day.

However, in this case we're talking about introducing changes into a
piece of code by its original author, so I don't think it'll change
the situation much.