Leaky abstractions

From APIDesign

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. There is some controversy on wikipedia whether this is good or bad and even whether the original Spolsky's article is properly understood. Let me add few comments to this debate from the perspective of selective cluelessness.

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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 and led one of TheAPIBook's reviewers to reject to publish its review.