Defensive Programming / Verbosity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:defensive-programming-verbosity
Canonical: Schema
"defensive-programming" (correctness-core layer) is traded against "Verbosity" (correctness-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Verbosity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Competing Consumers / Ordering and before Fail Fast / Graceful Degradation.