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> I'm unhappy with this line of reasoning. For me, an abstraction leak is a failure to behave as advertised. To my mind, it must fail to behave as advertised i
by dllthomas 11y ago
> I'm unhappy with this line of reasoning. For me, an abstraction leak is a failure to behave as advertised.
To my mind, it must fail to behave as advertised in a way that is meaningful. Otherwise, the differences are precisely what is being abstracted away.
> I'm not sure this is even possible (if I take nothing for granted, how do I do anything?), but I'd like to be proven wrong.
I don't mean "might act in arbitrary ways", but specifically "might be unexpectedly be terminated at any point".