January
19th,
2003
"Today my advice is to avoid learning how it works, because it's gonna change, and you don't want to be depending on the behavior of any given collector"
[Jason Whittington]. Am I the only one who draws a distinction between knowing how something works, and writing code that explicitly depends on that behavior?
P.S: Granted, this ain't easy, but I'd feel far more comfortable about this than treating everything as a black box I know nothing about because it could change... It just makes me nervous.