IconTasks taskmanager changes

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, October 27, 2011 14:10:50 Craig Drummond wrote:
> > yes, it's an edge case for certain. would be nice if it works, all the
> > same.
> 
> But, is it worth adding work-arounds for such an edge case? Why bloat the
> code with something that is unlikely to occur? At least I dont see it as a

because ime:

* covering edge cases often opens the door to fixing other similar cases later 
on

* it helps prevent code from becoming overly specified and brittle by only 
doing the "main" things well

* it gives people who try such things (out of innocence usually :) a really 
good feeling that it actually works in all cases (as far as they know)

counter points to this are:

* it can lead the code to becoming spaghetti or a series of workarounds that 
make it unmaintainable

if that condition is met, ime, you can mostly forget about the positives. so 
it does become a matter of judgement. in this case, i don't think it would be 
a big addition, would be applicable to other similar cases and would make sure 
the code itself was reasonably generic.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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