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Thanks for the answer! To better illustrate my concern I will use the example you gave. Let's say I use a library that can "do a HTTP request to an API and process its JSON response". But very often I call this function without passing any body, just the headers, so I wrote another function, which calls this function and passes null as body. Would this also be an abstraction? I don't feel like I've simplified anything, just transformed it.

Wojtek Wencel
– Wojtek Wencel

2021-02-07 10:58:52 +00:00
Commented Feb 7, 2021 at 10:58
The library is the abstraction. Both functions are backed by the same abstraction. Anyways, you could edit the question and add code to illustrate your doubts. Overloading functions is not the kind of abstraction Arseni is treating in his answer (IMO).

Laiv
– Laiv

2021-02-07 11:17:10 +00:00
Commented Feb 7, 2021 at 11:17
@WojtekWencel: I edited my answer.

Arseni Mourzenko
– Arseni Mourzenko

2021-02-07 11:17:25 +00:00
Commented Feb 7, 2021 at 11:17

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