On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:
By the way... having a default argument for a boolean:
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Show(nil) --> Show(true) -- use default
Show(true) --> Show(true) -- arg not nil/false, use arg
Show(false) --> Show(true) -- unintentionally use default (oops)
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Enrico
This is my most hated bug. I feel like I can probably find this bug in just about every piece of lua code, even though finding it doesn't mean that the expected arguments wouldn't be processed correctly. That is, usually the caller is expected to pass a non-bool or nothing, and false would act as a lot like it's supposed to, but not always.
It always takes me too long to figure out the correct way around it, when I may want to accept many things, including a boolean, especially when I want to default to "false".
show = show ~= nil and show or false
That's fine enough, but not especially clear and requires a bit too much thinking.