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leaky abstractions

leaky abstractions is the plural of leaky abstraction.

Meaning of leaky abstraction

Noun

leaky abstraction (plural leaky abstractions)

  1. An abstraction that undesirably exposes details and limitations of its underlying implementation.
    • This is a classic case of leaky abstraction. Repository is supposed to abstract away any concerns around querying the database, but now what we are doing here is returning an IQueryable<T> to the consuming code and asking it to build the queries, thus leaking the abstraction that is supposed to be...2015, Suhas Chatekar, Learning NHibernate 4, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 291

Questions about leaky abstractions

What is leaky abstractions the plural of?
Leaky abstractions is the plural of leaky abstraction.

Words near leaky abstractions in the dictionary

  1. leaktivism
  2. leaktivist
  3. leaktivists
  4. leaky
  5. leaky abstraction
  6. leaky abstractions
  7. leaky brain syndrome
  8. leaky brain syndromes
  9. leaky bucket
  10. leaky buckets
  11. leaky gut syndrome

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