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Sometimes, especially after struggling with cantankerous APIs, I also like to express my feelings by naming functions like pleaseDoSomething() :)

Andy
– Andy

2017-04-10 16:25:03 +00:00
Commented Apr 10, 2017 at 16:25
@Andy It is a regular part of my refactorings by moving unknown code blocks to doBlackMagic() and hope it will be less confusing later.

Barny
– Barny

2025-07-16 07:28:55 +00:00
Commented Jul 16 at 7:28
I think the first way is far more readable and intuitive than the second. The second way is a very confusing way of using booleans, not to mention it's twice as verbose.

TylerH
– TylerH

2025-07-16 15:48:06 +00:00
Commented Jul 16 at 15:48

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