[webkit-dev] Bools are strictly worse than enums

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Dec 3, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:

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> 03.12.2010, в 13:54, Eric Seidel написал(а):
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>> I'm not sure we have any examples of bool passing like that in real code.
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> We do, although I can't provide one now. I just remember this being discussed in bug review.
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> I think that Dave's rule is best here, even if it meant that we couldn't check it automatically. But I think that we can try - just complain each time true or false is passed into a function. That may prove to be too chatty though.

That sounds about right to me. Passing a true or false literal (at least in cases where it's not the sole argument) is a likely indicator of unclear style, as opposed to taking a boolean argument. In fact, even putting a boolean literal in a named variable and then passing that is likely to be fairly clear.

Regards,
Maciej