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On 19/06/13 03:33, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 06/17/2013 07:36 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 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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