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• 04 May 08
  

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  Simon G

  Kester’s Caution:
  
  Never use any language feature that describes itself as "Smart" or "Magic." Such features will invariably be trying to abstract out some behavior that is not that hard to deal with anyway, and will make any number of incorrect assum

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• 03 May 08
  

  harry palmer

  advice programming database spleen magic ror tips

  • I’ll leave you with an axiom that I’ve been telling developers for years without much success. Call it Kester’s Caution: 

     

      Never use any language feature that describes itself as "Smart" or "Magic." Such features will invariably be trying to abstract out some behavior that is not that hard to deal with anyway, and will make any number of incorrect assumptions about your application that will result in strange behavior cropping up that could possibly be described as "Magic", but certainly would never be labeled "Smart". 

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