Thursday, 9 January 2020

The Pitfalls of Boolean Trap

A colleague is looking to update all inspections in IntelliJ at work, which is commendable.

He referred a link, see [1], to me regarding the use of Booleans as method parameters ("switches"), which is a pet peeve of another colleague of mine.

I thought I'd just mention it here, for who's interested.

References

[1] The Pitfalls of Boolean Trap
https://ariya.io/2011/08/hall-of-api-shame-boolean-trap

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