h3. When does the search for beautiful code become an obsession?
Rightly so, “David Heinemeier Hansson”:http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000419.html constantly pushes for beautiful code, however this in now becoming an obsession for me and I may soon need professional help…
You know things are getting bad when you do something similar to the following:
thing = {
:store_dir => "public/master",
:scaled_dir => "public/variants",
:tmp_dir => "public/temp"
}
And then _have_ to change it so that the symbol names are the same length!!:
thing = {
:storage_dir => "public/master",
:variant_dir => "public/variants",
:tmp_img_dir => "public/temp"
}
I am finding myself becoming more and more obsessional about stuff like this.
- Where is the threshold?
- When does code beauty become an obsession?
If anyone else is suffering from this terrible disorder, please post here, I need support to get through this 😉