On 4 October 2016 at 16:41, <paul.kon...@dell.com> wrote: > >> On Oct 3, 2016, at 7:48 PM, Martin Sebor <mse...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In a recent review Jason and I discussed the style convention >> commonly followed in the C++ front end to annotate arguments >> in calls to functions taking bool parameters with a comment >> along the lines of >> >> foo (1, 2, /*bar_p=*/true); > > I can't fathom why this makes any sense at all. Bool is just another data > type. And on top of that, "true" is obviously a value of type bool. I can't > imagine any reason why calls should have funny comments in them that appear > only for arguments of that particular type.
You should get out more :-) http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UseEnumsNotBooleans https://ariya.io/2011/08/hall-of-api-shame-boolean-trap http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Replacing_Bool_Arguments_With_Enums.shtml
