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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>case and paste</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cascade.html" title="cascade"/><link rel="next" href="case-mod.html" title="case mod"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">case and paste</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cascade.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="case-mod.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="case-and-paste"/><dt xmlns="" id="case-and-paste"><b>case and paste</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from ‘cut and paste’] </p></dd><dd><p> The addition of a new <a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> to an existing
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system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in
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with minor changes. Common in telephony circles because most operations in
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a telephone switch are selected using <b class="command">case</b>
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statements. Leads to <a href="../S/software-bloat.html"><i class="glossterm">software bloat</i></a>.</p><p>In some circles of EMACS users this is called ‘programming by
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Meta-W’, because Meta-W is the EMACS command for copying a block of
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text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term
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is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather
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than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for
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two similar cases.</p><p>At <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> (now HP), this is sometimes called
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<span class="firstterm">clone-and-hack</span> coding.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cascade.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="case-mod.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cascade<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>case mod</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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