Re: Avoiding Booleans & Danny Thorpe

John Herbster wrote: 
"Andre Kaufmann" <andre.kaufmann.bei@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote


  CreateFile(cmCreateNew);
is much more readable than
  CreateFile(true);
With the latter one I don't have any clue what's the parameter for.



Which is why I try to code
  CreateFile( {CreateNew}true );
where comment CreateNew will give the reader a hint as
to what the parameter is for.


Good idea, I do that too for functions I cannot change.
But if you are implementing the function, what would be
the benefit of using a boolean parameter and additionally adding it's purpose as comment compared to adding it to the variable name itself ?

--JohnH 
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