On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mark Wilden <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:41 AM, James Byrne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Logins are a pervasive feature of this application and so, rather than
>> waste effort on policing the feature syntax, I thought it best just to
>> accommodate the likely variations from the start.
>
>
> Premature flexibility is one of the roots of all evil. :)
>
> Seriously, your code has two types of users. Yes, you should make writing
> features easier for biz, but you should also make reading steps easier for
> dev. Given that, I like the suggestion of explicitly enumerating the choices
> of verbiage. A clear pointer toward that choice is the comment. A comment is
> an apology for unclear code. All unclear code should be commented, but
> unclear code should be avoided whenever possible.
>

Another principle that calls for a more rigid Regex:
http://domaindrivendesign.org/discussion/messageboardarchive/UbiquitousLanguage.html.


Everybody should speak the same language and know what it means. Having 4
different ways of saying the same thing will just add to confusion.

Aslak


>
> All IMO, of course.
>
> ///ark
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