Quote: design software for ease of change; be explicit; e.g., an explicit field for number of dependents instead of a keyword-value pair

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Where design counts is often not in how … This drive toward changeability is why it's so … all, it's hard to change something when you … [Consider using explicit fields for a Person object vs. using a dictionary to store keyword-value pairs.] To learn that someone's storing the number … [in a dictionary] … [p.11] The key principle is that explicit code … it, the explicit code is intention revealing.   Google-1   Google-2

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