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>>A library, on the other hand, can solve this problem without you even needing to know that the edge-cases existed<<

Unfortunately you can never take it on trust that any given library *will*, so it's still really down to you to try and think of all the edge cases, test them, and then possibly fix them. Sounds like your own example bears this out.

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Re^4: Module Bloat and the Best Solution
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Nov 10, 2007 at 20:02 UTC

    I think you mean "you and everyone else who uses the library and could possibly run into the same bug", which is a rather different point.

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