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"With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended o
by oxff 4y ago
"With a sufficient number of users of an API,
it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
all observable behaviors of your system
will be depended on by somebody."
- ronsor 4y agoCorollary: If your programming language supports reflection, people will depend on private properties and methods regardless of what you do.
- LanceH 4y agoPeople who can't accomplish something with an API because things are kept private won't be users.
- lamontcg 4y agoIt is always better to get the authors of the API to provide a supported way of doing something, rather than trying to bypass the interface. That requires human skills rather than computer skills though.