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Re:The Wrong Abstraction (2016) by kwhitefoot on Sunday July 05, 2020 @01:51PM (#23740478)
> Sandi Metz IMHO doesn't claim that the problem occurs at step 2 or 3.

But the headline does.

I had to read quite a long way down the page to discover that all she is advocating is what i have always done: deduplicate when practical, undo the duplication when new requirements make it incorrect and push the unique parts into the callers.

Re:The Wrong Abstraction (2016) by DougBTX on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:06PM (#23741989)
> But the headline does.

That’s not really fair, it repeatedly says “wrong abstraction”, in the title and in the article. At steps 2 and 3 it is still the right abstraction, duplication only becomes better when it is the wrong abstraction.