Re: Syntax sugar for default arguments

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 25/04/2013 17.19, Andrew Starks wrote:
> 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.

Well, I don't consider it a bug... but a slight annoyance, yes.
My preferred approach is just to avoid default behaviour for booleans: 
it's faster and safer for users (including myself).

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  Enrico