• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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        6 hours ago

        “You ain’t gonna need it”. It means: Build the thing you need now and don’t try to predict what you’ll need in 3 years. You ain’t gonna need it anyway.

    • Avicenna@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      I think it is a balance. Despite having quite functional IDEs now a days, it is still more error prone to change 10 instances of math.random than a single function you define modularly. If you think there is a good chance such an extension might be needed in future or that you might want to change libraries later on, I wouldn’t necessarily call this a bad decision, even if it goes unused.

      YAGNI works best when it prevents adding complex unused futures which are error prone and complicates a simpler program logic and flow. In this case you are just encapsulating a function inside another one without any change to program complexity.

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        7 hours ago

        It definitely depends on the use case. I could accept this being abstracted out to facilitate mocking, for instance (although I’d recommend mocking at a higher level). But in general this wouldn’t pass review with me unless I get a good explanation for why it’s necessary.