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Or, less contentiously - if you know you don't care/don't need to disambiguate dups, look how much efficiency you're losing on a case that isn't important. The

Or, less contentiously - if you know you don't care/don't need to disambiguate dups, look how much efficiency you're losing on a case that isn't important. The most common argument against optimization is "just use the existing code", but the "existing code" _always_ attempts to handle special edge cases that probably don't apply in your case. We programmers waste a lot of end-user time saving a bit of programmer time.

jfk13 3y ago
On the other hand, assuming it's OK to ignore the special edge cases (or not even thinking of them) can come back to bite you (or your users) when eventually one of them does show up in a situation you didn't anticipate.
- plagiarist 3y ago
  Anecdotally this happens to me every time I omit an edge case. Now I try to always write a unit test for the special edge case being deliberately omitted. I just wish I could catch everything that way.