On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a believer in generalizing where possible, modulo the principles > of KISS and YAGNI. The latter essentially means "at least make it > general enough that you can extend it later without major retooling if > it turns out YNIAA.". It's pretty surprising what can turn out to be > useful, so I've never been swayed by arguments from "what is it good > for?"...
Amen. Incidentally, you'll find that that is the most common response when a programmer is introduced to a language feature he has not seen before. Tell a C programmer about objects, "okay, that's cool, but what is it good for". Tell a C++ programmer about closures, "hmm, that just seems like it would lead to bad design". Tell a scheme programmer about laziness, "weird, I can't see how I would ever use that". Luke
