> Do you have specific experience that suggests that hyper-generalizing code before you even know about multiple use cases is beneficial over carefully extracti

> Do you have specific experience that suggests that hyper-generalizing code before you even know about multiple use cases is beneficial over carefully extracting shared logic only when needed? I've gone over my comment three times now and I'm yet to see where I even implied something like this. Could you tell me how you got this from my comment? I do want to see how I could send the wrong message so I can word myself better in the future. Just in case, one of the principles I follow is "premature optimization is the root of all evil".