Quote: premature commitment -- avoid making a decision before there is information to do so

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Any design that required [function definition] would be ignoring … [Cognitive Dimension], which warns about requiring an audience to make a decision … Therefore, the sequence we support [in Excel] is this: … the code needs to be reused or repeated, … and (4) the user acts upon the discovery … the existing code used to be.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: reuse existing spreadsheet code by creating a user-defined function; low-cost and low-risk

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