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barrkel on July 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

You're fooling yourself, in a mature codebase, if you think you can modify code and not look past function boundaries.

That assertion would be more credible in a language that captures side effects in the type system, but that's not what most people use.

hackinthebochs on July 5, 2020 [–]

I'm not sure what point you're making. If you are just assuming that functional boundaries tend to not be maintained in practice then you're not contradicting anything I have said. Whether or not functional boundaries are easy/hard to observe depends on the language and coding conventions.

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