Perfect example of reality VS classroom. There is a reason people tell you to do "KISS". Which is just coding what you need right now, and not trying to be too

Perfect example of reality VS classroom. There is a reason people tell you to do "KISS". Which is just coding what you need right now, and not trying to be too smart about it. Life is full of special cases : try to code an international calendar application, and you'll see what I mean. So many cultural things, so many political things, so many legal things... So yeah, if you can find an elegant way to generalize your problem, do so. But unless you work on a purely theorical topic, you will have special cases. And they will change.