Quotes of the week

Sorry, it can't always be constructive, but I'll try my best. I'll also try to not cast aversions about your cat, but if you taunt me, all bets are off.

Hooks and notifiers are a form of "COME FROM" programming, and they make it very hard to reason about the code. The only way that that can be reasonably mitigated is by having the exact semantics of a hook or notifier -- the preconditions, postconditions, and other invariants -- carefully documented. Experience has shown that in practice that happens somewhere between rarely and never.