Future-Proofing A Design

Last time on FAIC a user asked for guidance on the potential pitfalls of refactoring an automatic property into a regular explicit property. This is just an example of a far more general problem: how can we design programs so that they are easy to get right when things inevitably change in the future?

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer, one which whole books could be written on. Today, I'll just give three general points to think about.

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