Perhaps some O'Reilly will publish _Refactoring For Dummies_?
NBK's right; that's terrible sloppiness. In my many years of experience, this is /USUALLY/ the sign of a bunch of coders attempting to skitter arround a code base they are basically afraid of, worried they might break it.
For your reading pleasure:
http://www.refactoring.com/
http://agilemanifesto.org/
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/
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