July 20, 2010
3:43 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
It refers to the guideline that you shouldn't have a single function with two (or more) different behaviour and an argument that does nothing but select between them.
In particular, when that argument is almost never given a variable value, but is specified using a constant at the call site. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein