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My general reaction to flag arguments is to avoid them. Rather than use a flag argument, I prefer to define separate methods.
class Concert...
public Booking regularBook(Customer aCustomer) {...}
public Booking premiumBook(Customer aCustomer) {...}
My reasoning here is that the separate methods communicate more clearly what my intention is when I make the call.
FlagArgument
Martin Fowler
The essence of the gift is that it creates a set of relationships. The currency of a gift economy is, at its root, reciprocity. In Western thinking, private land is understood to be a "bundle of rights," whereas in a gift economy property has a "bundle of responsibilities" attached.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Consider: what is a parser? Really, a parser is just a function that consumes less-structured input and produces more-structured output. By its very nature, a parser is a partial function—some values in the domain do not correspond to any value in the range—so all parsers must have some notion of failure.
Parse, Don’t Validate
lexi-lambda.github.io
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