What to Do When Your Constants Are Someone Else's Law

A colleague once asked me why a number in my code had a comment three lines long. The number was 18. The comment said which rule it came from, which section notified it, and that it could change without warning. That felt like a lot of ceremony for a two-digit integer — until I remembered the alternative. In most software, a constant is a decision... Weiterlesen: What to Do When Your Constants Are Someone Else's Law