Forcing others to alter their inputs because you want to simplify your method (because code smell??) is nuts. If you say: Oh by the way, if you want to call "

Forcing others to alter their inputs because you want to simplify your method (because code smell??) is nuts. If you say: Oh by the way, if you want to call "final_step" be sure to remember to mirror your input array otherwise my method will break. I would say: Oh by the way, You are fired.