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Old 06-18-2015, 08:12 PM   #90
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
I think it's tradition. The way they handled books in the early readers was different to now. My understanding is they unpacked them all. Extracting the ToC while doing that wouldn't be much work. Plus, my memory has the ToC available from outside the book in at least one firmware version. As things have changed, this hasn't as there has been no real reason to, and as any good programmer knows, you do not touch working code.
Slow code could arguably be called not-really-working code.

I could see it as being quite reasonable to branch off the code and try to update it to work with the new paradigm for their other code that they did, somehow, end up changing.
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