This really isnt a question, nor is it a meditation, nor does it really belong in the Perl Monks Discussion. So, I will put it out here.

I ran across an interesting bug at work today in someone elses code. The bug has been there for two years unnoticed untill this week.

Durring my experiments to debug these three regular expressions I simply commented them out to see what effect it would have if they were not doing their job at all. To my surprise, it fixed the bug. In other words they were totally unnessisary.

This brings up the question of "Over Programming". When is enough enough and when is it too much? Obviously I experienced an example of that today, but, and i grant that this is not a direct perl question, however the nature of Perl makes over programming easy to do, what sorts of design methods does one need to use to curb over programming?

In reply to Over Programming by little_mistress

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