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| Date | 2013-06-19 08:34 +0100 |
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| From | lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> |
| Organization | Trollbusters 3 |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: About java program. |
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On 19/06/13 03:33, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > On 06/17/2013 07:36 PM, Joshua Cranmer đ§ wrote: >> On 6/17/2013 8:46 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >>> ... and what is your opinion of defensive coding? >> >> The term, as I understand it, refers to coding under the assumption that >> everyone who uses your API is a stupid idiot who can't follow your rules >> properly. The matter at hand here is basically a stylistic concern about >> which is mentally easier to follow, which falls under the category of >> "everyone has an opinion which is strongly held and won't be changed." > [ SNIP ] > > Like I stated in a different post in this thread, the stupid idiot is > often you yourself (you as in impersonal "you"), since you wrote both > the calling code and the called code, and six months later you are > adapting the called code and can't remember the assumptions you made > previously because you had a whitebox view then, and hence you f**k up. [snip] > Rule of thumb - if your average coder gets how the method does exits > quickly, then your style is fine. These days - basically the last 2 > decades after programming became a commodity and most coders have > minimal formal background - I'm all for coding to the LCD. Which means > very defensive, and frequently not being elegant in favour of being > obvious. Elegantly put lipska -- Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun
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