There is an unpraised advantage of keeping code, uh wet?, for as long as possible. When you do decide that a refactor is required, you have real use cases to te

There is an unpraised advantage of keeping code, uh wet?, for as long as possible. When you do decide that a refactor is required, you have real use cases to test your abstraction against. While I am broadly in agreement with the article because of that, people designing public binary APIs don't have the luxury of delaying these choices.