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Seems to me that such boolean flags do not force you to think about "building up" or "building down". You just declare what _is_. Who cares what the default is?
by nh2 4mo ago
Seems to me that such boolean flags do not force you to think about "building up" or "building down". You just declare what _is_. Who cares what the default is? When you're building a minimal thing, changing some defaults is fine.
- xyzzy_plugh 4mo agoAs your sibling points out, it's not just about boolean flags: it's about the abstraction, which is opinionated. I posit that it is perhaps more laborious to untangle those abstractions than to just write your own. It's like improving the lighting in your house by going to the breaker panel and flipping breakers and splicing extension cables that you run up your stairs and down your halls.