Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful”

From	Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: “Booleans Considered Harmful”
Date	2025-05-22 12:04 +0200
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On 22/05/2025 11:14, Julio Di Egidio wrote:
> 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*...

...together with what *readability* even means.

-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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