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The title of this post is taken from a spam - I thought it sounded like it should be a real word: medication + boon.
Check out Kevin Lawrence's tale of a class that "just" was going to represent a class-name, and became so much more. He titled his post "Fight Complexity with Complexity" but by creating an abstraction that centralizes stuff that was spread out everywhere, he actually simplified the code -- according to two of Kent Beck's rules of simplicity: "no duplicate logic" and "expresses the programmer's intentions".
All the time we thought of a class name as just a string, it had no behavior. Once we created a type for it - once we reified it - we realized that class names had a lot of rules and behavior that had previously been distributed throughout the codebase. We had added a little complexity and were rewarded with less complexity overall.
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