[Python-ideas] Boolean parameters guidelines
Chris Barker
chris.barker at noaa.gov
Mon May 9 13:57:58 EDT 2016
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
>
> Wouldn't that be "for every (or almost every) call-site"?
"most call sites" would be fine. The common use case matters, it's not that
hard to conditionally call a different function, as long as that's the
uncommon use-case.
The other key here is that even if a boolean flag does essentially select
between two different function, there are times where there is more than
one such boolean flag for a single function, so you end up with 2**n
"different" functions -- in this case, probably better to just use the
flags and have one calling point.
-CHB
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