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		flipperkid on May 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Code Review Best Practices Where I work we refer to guidelines like this as code smell. These are cues that refactoring should be considered but not strict rules which would prevent a commit.

Kaedon on May 9, 2015 [–]

Yes, exactly true. There are situations where it's probably fine to violate the guidelines if there's a good reason.

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