Like let's say you want to add a new required property to every type of something... like you want every encoding to have an accepts_tainted_value property. You don't want a default because you want to be forced to think through every case.
Can you regenerate the code? If so, are you keeping the "real" object specification in some other structure? Or do you just change a superclass to make the property required then fix the generated source based on the errors you get?
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How do you deal with changes over time?
Like let's say you want to add a new required property to every type of something... like you want every encoding to have an accepts_tainted_value property. You don't want a default because you want to be forced to think through every case.
Can you regenerate the code? If so, are you keeping the "real" object specification in some other structure? Or do you just change a superclass to make the property required then fix the generated source based on the errors you get?