[development] Proposed Apocrypha

[Earl Miles]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting James Gilliland <neclimdul at gmail.com>:
> 
>>
>> Drupal Law 0: If you need to do something, make an API for it first.
>>
> 
> print t('Hello World');
> 
> Oh wait I should create an API to do it first.
> 
> function print_hello_world() {
>   print t('Hello World');
> }

That's not an API, that's abstraction. Kind of. It doesn't follow any of 
the rules, which has to do with flexibility and reusability. So it's bad 
abstraction. :P