[penetrarthur]

We had a guy who wrote the other 14900 loc in a similar situation and made the whole thing really crappy. He used to say we cannot blame him because he inherited the crappy 100 loc in the first place.

[kasparsklavins]

After a few hundred new lines ones would think a rewrite might have been more appropriate.

[panzi]

There is no single point in time where a rewrite is "more appropriate" than adding this one line of code. At least not when you have a deadline.