Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful”

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On 22/05/2025 08:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> I think most of this article is a load of nonsense, myself.
> 
> <https://www.infoworld.com/article/3990923/booleans-considered-harmful.html>
> 
> Thoughts?

Yeah, it's mostly balderdash, especially the "think positive"
part: rules of dumb I call those, in fact reinventing the wheel
and reinventing it wrong.

But we know better: the one best practice that would be relevant
there is *do not use magic values*.  And of course we could rather
say more about that.  And of course it still wouldn't be just a
rule of dumb, rather learn the art of incremental/evolutionary...

-Julio

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“Booleans Considered Harmful” Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-22 06:51 +0000
  Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-05-22 11:14 +0200
    Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-05-22 12:04 +0200
    Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-22 22:33 +0000
      Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-05-23 07:04 +0200
  Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-05-22 13:51 +0200
    Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-05-22 14:43 +0200
      Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-05-22 14:57 +0200
  Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-22 12:27 -0700
  Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2025-05-23 16:56 +0700
    Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-23 22:58 +0000
  Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-23 22:48 +0000
  Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful” c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-18 02:40 -0400

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