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shotgun surgery

noun

Definitions

  1. The antipattern of adding similar or identical source code in multiple parts of a…

    The antipattern of adding similar or identical source code in multiple parts of a software project, rather than implementing the desired functionality in a single place to make it reusable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shotgun surgery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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