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On 12/19/2011 9:38 PM, alex23 wrote:
> Do you mean directly editing the source code on a production machine?
> Because that's pretty much the only scenario I can come up with where
> that's plausible.
You'd have to ask Steven D'Aprano; it was his scenario.

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