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by Spivak 879 days ago
I'll take that every time, to zeroth order if the bug occurs other places it's free to err other places and I'll deal with it. But if it doesn't then does it matter? If we're experiencing a bug in a specific code-path is the right move to make a change that fixes it in one codepath but potentially changes the currently working n other codepaths that depend on it? If it weren't DRY'd would you bother changing the others? Probably not.

To first order :vimgrep is totally mechanical and brain-off repeat fix is super easy.