TODO doesn’t mean you actually intend to do something. It’s a marker for the next person that the logic was left unfinished and they shouldn’t be surprised by missing corner cases or strange code structure.
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This also means keeping code “clean” of TODOs is a terrible idea. You’re not actually completing your software, you’re just hiding the fact it’s incomplete from the reader.
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Applies abstractly to any application of ideology. Typescript has a similar issue where too early rigid typing gives the impression of the design being thought through and locking down the taxonomy. Similar to degenerate OOP.