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In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away. As coined by Joel Spolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions states: All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. This statement highlights a particularly problematic cause of software defects: the reliance of the software developer on an abstraction's infallibility.

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  • In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away. As coined by Joel Spolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions states: All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. This statement highlights a particularly problematic cause of software defects: the reliance of the software developer on an abstraction's infallibility. Spolsky's article gives examples of an abstraction that works most of the time, but where a detail of the underlying complexity cannot be ignored, thus leaking complexity out of the abstraction back into the software that uses the abstraction. (en)
  • “抽象泄漏”是软件开发时，本应隐藏实现细节的抽象化不可避免地暴露出底层细节与局限性。抽象泄露是棘手的问题，因为抽象化本来目的就是向用户隐藏不必要公开的细节。 (zh)
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  • “抽象泄漏”是软件开发时，本应隐藏实现细节的抽象化不可避免地暴露出底层细节与局限性。抽象泄露是棘手的问题，因为抽象化本来目的就是向用户隐藏不必要公开的细节。 (zh)
  • In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away. As coined by Joel Spolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions states: All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. This statement highlights a particularly problematic cause of software defects: the reliance of the software developer on an abstraction's infallibility. (en)
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  • Leaky abstraction (en)
  • 抽象泄漏 (zh)
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