I really get annoyed by the lack of good tooling to deal with abstraction. I wish there were a way to view abstracted code with function calls (to some depth) i

I really get annoyed by the lack of good tooling to deal with abstraction. I wish there were a way to view abstracted code with function calls (to some depth) inlined and macros applied. It would solve a lot of the difficulties with heavily abstracted code while preserving the advantages. >Secondly, nothing is free. My code traded the ability to change requirements for reduced duplication, and it was not a good trade. For example, we later needed many special cases and behaviors for different handles on different shapes. My abstraction would have to become several times more convoluted to afford that, whereas with the original “messy” version such changes stayed easy as cake. The opposite is also often true though. If the requirements had changed in a uniform way across the different shapes, then it would have been much easier to apply the modifications to the abstracted code. The trick is to have an idea of what kinds of modifications are likely in the future, and when you're not sure yet, avoid premature abstraction but ensure things aren't so ad hoc you'll have trouble abstracting in the future.