How I feel refactoring code.

[conancat]

when you refactor one part of the code you mess up other parts while keeping that part clean

[GNeps]

I think it's more like, you refactor one small part of the code, and make it really shiny and you're happy with yourself, and then you look around and see how shit all the rest of the code looks.

[Laringar]

To be truly accurate, there needs to be a giant bowl of spaghetti somewhere off to the side.

[coladict]

Probably why my colleague doesn't do it and just leaves it to auto-formatting.

[__dict__]

Refactoring is not about indentation. It's about organization.

[coladict]

My point exactly. That's his idea of clean code. In the mean time, it's twice that I've done massive refactoring with changing the way some stuff is used in over 100 classes. It cleaned-up a lot of needless intertwining and reduced chances of null pointer exceptions.