How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?

How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?

Posted Apr 1, 2008 5:41 UTC (Tue) by jd (guest, #26381)
Parent article: How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?

A few others:

• Types should cover the legal values and as little beyond that as efficiency constraints permit
• Know thine invariants (...and preconditions ...and postconditions)
• The argument list should be what is needed by the code and nothing more, in content and format
• A clean solution is superior to an oblique one, insofar as a clean solution exists
• An oblique solution is superior to an oblique bug
• If it doesn't work when compiled and optimized, but tests fine the rest of the time, you are testing what you are thinking and not what you are coding

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