31 May
2005
31 May
'05
4 p.m.
At 17:20 19/05/05 -0400, ajb@spamcop.net wrote:
One of the best bad example is the use of boolean as arguments.
Oh, yes. That's a pet peeve of mine. About 99% of boolean arguments should be meaningful two-valued enumerated types. It's literally a one-liner to create such an enumerated type, so there's no excuse.
While I see your point in the case of Booleans, I note that, in other circumstances, not using a pre-existing data type can be sub-optimal; cf. use of Maybe noted at [1]. #g -- [1] http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/Learning-Haskell-Notes.html#UseStandardTy... ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact