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0 pointsdebacle4y ago0 comments

It's a readability optimization, not a performance optimization.

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What's wrong with readability optimizations, be they micro- or macro-?

The next person to read that isn't going to say "Wow this is so clever." They are going to say "Wow this guy didn't know about booleans."

CRConrad4y ago

Did you just skip over the beginning of the discussion, where everyone agreed that having a bunch of anonymous booleans is bad for readability, and circle back to advocating the status quo that everyone else is trying to improve on?

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CRConrad4y ago

What's wrong with readability optimizations, be they micro- or macro-?

debacleOP4y ago

The next person to read that isn't going to say "Wow this is so clever." They are going to say "Wow this guy didn't know about booleans."

CRConrad4y ago

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