[whatwg] Fixing undo on the Web - UndoManager and Transaction from Aryeh Gregor on 2011-09-13 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from September 2011)

From: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:43:33 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKA+AxkzMRQGnabCn2tiKK4Vv0iVOTaqxV8RttxajC-u11vyfw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> Could you please supply an example where the apply/reapply split leads
> to cleaner or otherwise better code than using a boolean argument?

Boolean arguments are evil and should be avoided wherever possible.
It's impossible to figure out from the call signature what they do.
Instead, have an argument that accepts a string argument consisting of
space-separated tokens, or something like that.  Even named constants
are better than boolean arguments.

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