Hi,

This is more a preference question, I admit. At what point do you quit adding features and patches to existing code, give up on it, and rewrite it from scratch the way it should have been done?

Scenerios would include the discovery of a new CPAN module that would have made your life much easier and your code much smaller, a different way of doing what you were doing to clean the code, etc.

When is enough enough?

Update: Most of the responses so far assume that there is a single ownership (whomever wrote/maintains it) of the code. Meaning that the current owner was the original owner. Would any of the answers be different if the code was from a previous owner and the programming style is very different than your own style?

Jason L. Froebe

No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

In reply to rebuilding working code by jfroebe

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