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Redefining a thing to do a different thing to achieve the same result. You'll see it a lot in older systems where you have a billion deprecated functions, and i
by tbirrell 9y ago
Redefining a thing to do a different thing to achieve the same result. You'll see it a lot in older systems where you have a billion deprecated functions, and instead of changing each instance to use the new version, you trick the system by appropriating the old version to point to custom code that runs the new version and passes back whatever the old version is expected to return.