Sounds similar to https://thedailywtf.com/articles/best-of-2016-the-inner-json-effect https://thedailywtf.com/articles/best-of-2016-the-inner-json... Keeping a

Sounds similar to https://thedailywtf.com/articles/best-of-2016-the-inner-json-effect https://thedailywtf.com/articles/best-of-2016-the-inner-json... Keeping all versions of the same method in the source files has a lot of drawbacks: 1. Readability. Autocomplete gives me 50 versions of that method. Which one do I choose? The latest? Why do the rest need to exist? 2. Code size. Can you imagine the compilation times? IDE indexing times? Binary size? 3. Consistency / Correctness. How do you know when each call should update it's version. How do you increment all calls to the latest version? Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.