There's a distinction that's probably only obvious to people with some grad-level math: Corner cases are not the same as rare cases. Neither implies the other. "Corners" are a measure-0 subset of a space where open-nbhd/non-singleton methods don't apply Ie "special treatment"
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I'm not convinced. to me that signals wrong-abstraction.
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for example, in coding, the right abstraction (almost always) results in writing MUCH less code to solve the problem. if I encounter some code where EVERYTHING is being handled as a special case that's a huge code smell. means wrong abstraction.
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