Quite. 6 booleans can just be a way to represent 6 flags - it might be modeled as a state-machine - but depending on the language and code base passing in 6 bo

Quite. 6 booleans can just be a way to represent 6 flags - it might be modeled as a state-machine - but depending on the language and code base passing in 6 booleans to a function (or procedure) might be a fine way to isolate the entry point. Now given that you have such a function, you need to be able to concentrate in order to refractor it. I've recently untangled some hairy old front-end js code that takes in parameters from an "advanced" search form in order to validate the input, and construct a proper search. Basically the same thing, but with much more than six inputs. After squinting at it for an hour and trying a few things, it boiled down to a few simple checks and a map() over the remaining parameters.