Leaky abstractions
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When creating an API one is creating a facade, an abstractions over the internals of the API's implementation. Often the characteristics of the implementations are visible through the API. This is common source of software bugs.
Leakages of this kind are not restricted just to the world of API. After writing TheAPIBook I also noticed that I made my own cultural context leak which created an unwanted confusion.
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