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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CBooleans_Considered_Harmful=E2=80=9D?= Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 11:14:17 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <100mpta$32gho$1@dont-email.me> References: <100mhh5$3b9hp$3@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 11:14:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="982abdda2b1bb3b14ada760c28c7713c"; logging-data="3228216"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18jdlQBp+Sc7IhgA4kicV4eT4aU7qbhwwA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:jH7THEfI9KNScqUx6JXrJGGXVyI= Content-Language: en-GB, it In-Reply-To: <100mhh5$3b9hp$3@dont-email.me> Bytes: 1701 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