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By mchilvers:

G'day, please don't be offended by the term 'code smell' - we use it all the time to describe bits of code that stand-out as obvious indicators that something in the design isn't right. Often, we don't know the answer - yet - but we do need to recognise that the smell is trying to help us! Martin Fowler has a god artilce at:- http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeSmell.html