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designing for flexibility

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designing for flexibility can be accomplished by
Reducing coupling and increasing cohesion which allows you to more readily replace part of a system
Creating abstractions - this allows new extensions to be easily added
Not hard-coding anything
Using reusable code and making code reusable
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involves actively anticipating changes that a design may have to undergo in the future and preparing for them
is a subtopic of 9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design
is an instance of design principle

designing for flexibility	can be accomplished by Reducing coupling and increasing cohesion which allows you to more readily replace part of a system Creating abstractions - this allows new extensions to be easily added Not hard-coding anything Using reusable code and making code reusable
	involves actively anticipating changes that a design may have to undergo in the future and preparing for them
	is a subtopic of 9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design
	is an instance of design principle