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It's great that you provide operator overloads, but it's also nice to have names - The Old New Thing (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel that this is something that would be fixed by writing your test suites first. If you think you have designed a tremendously clever API, but then the code that calls it is an absolute mess, then you have not designed a tremendously clever API.

General principles of restraint and not having to use every available language feature all the time apply here as everywhere - keep it simple, stupid. The only WTF I want when reading your code is, "I didn't realise there could be such a straightforward way to do it".

[–] gracicot 3 points 2 years ago

I had designed a system with what I thought was a good API, wrote the test for it and I was satisfied how simple it was to use the thing but then, when it came to integrate it, it was clunky and no good way to actually use the system.

I don't think it's always obvious when an API is good or bad, even with tests.