Yeah, I immediately thought of "The Wrong Abstraction" by the same author. Putting the branch inside the for loop is an abstraction, saying "the for loop is the

Yeah, I immediately thought of "The Wrong Abstraction" by the same author. Putting the branch inside the for loop is an abstraction, saying "the for loop is the rule, and the branch is the behavior". But very often, some new requirement will break that abstraction, so you have to work around it, and the resulting code has an abstraction that only applies in some cases and doesn't in others, or you force a bunch of extra parameters into the abstraction so that it applies everywhere but is hard to follow. Whereas if you hadn't made the abstraction in the first place, the resulting code can be easier to modify and understand. https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction