on 2008-05-30 08:33 Kenneth Downs said the following:
John Campbell wrote:
In my experience, this type of future proofing buys you nothing. I
have found that tons of other problems arise before overflow issues
start to be a problem.
I will go further and say it is worse than nothing. You end up with
code you need to test against a case that receives no real-world
pressure. Then when you have to make real changes in response to actual
(as opposed to hypothetical) needs you have tip-toe around this code and
avoid breaking it -- even though it is not necessary!
This kind of thinking is so prevalent it even has its own acronym:
YAGNI. (You Ain't Gonna Need It.)
It's at the core of just about all the agile little-m methodologies.
Kenneth Downs
//jblatz
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