- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 11:59:01 -0800
- To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
- Cc: James Ascroft-Leigh <jwal@jwal.me.uk>, "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Chris Jones <cjones@mozilla.com>, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote: > Do people have an opinion on a boolean value vs an enum? > A boolean value is slightly faster to execute and type while an enum is > more descriptive. > > So far, canvas has not used enum values before. I strongly prefer enums for cases where it's not a simple yes/no, and this clearly qualifies. (I also prefer enums generally even when this is true, but that's my CSS experience talking, where we have a history of changing things that were once booleans into multi-state when people ask for more features later.) ~TJ
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