http://wiki.apidesign.org/index.php?title=Refactoring&action=history Revision history for this page on the wiki en MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:45:05 GMT http://wiki.apidesign.org/index.php?title=Refactoring&diff=9506&oldid=prev <p>New page: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Code_refactoring">wikipedia:Code_refactoring</a> is only useful when one has access to the overall codebase that needs to be refactored. It comes with no surprise that in the area of <a href="/wiki/APIDesign" class="mw-redirect" title="APIDesign">APIDesign</a> where one...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[wikipedia:Code_refactoring]] is only useful when one has access to the overall codebase that needs to be refactored. It comes with no surprise that in the area of [[APIDesign]] where one design an [[API]] for a framework, but doesn't control its usages, that is hardly the case. As such [[refactoring]] externally visible parts of an [[API]] isn't really a [[good]] idea when one cares about [[BackwardCompatibility]].</div> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 13:08:05 GMT JaroslavTulach http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Talk:Refactoring