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From: Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name>
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Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CBooleans_Considered_Harmful=E2=80=9D?=
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 11:14:17 +0200
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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