Comment by randomdata
3 months ago
Nothing is left undefined. Absent of documentation, most likely something will end up defined by inference. Which is not a good place to be as a developer as you have lost the nuance that went into it originally.
3 months ago
Nothing is left undefined. Absent of documentation, most likely something will end up defined by inference. Which is not a good place to be as a developer as you have lost the nuance that went into it originally.
Then how do you separate what is defined and can't change to what can be changed? If everything is defined then nothing can change.
You don’t change what is already defined (even if only by inference). Change is only by amendment. Will you successfully amend the changes without also changing what was previously defined if all you have is inference to go on? Probably not.
That’s assuming change is even necessary. Oftentimes you only need to modify the implementation, which doesn’t change what is defined. A change in implementation has no impact on the outside, at least as long as you have properly covered your bases, which should you should be able to do as long as you have proper documentation. Without documentation, good luck to you.