On Aug 15, 2014 1:57 AM, "Anne van Kesteren" <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Robert Bindar <robertbin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We can not say accurately if the default will always be false because > > the platform may or may not support the behavior, or it might be overridden > > by a user defined setting. > > Well, if we introduce new dictionary members they will default to > false. So I guess what Jonas was asking for is that we should think of > names that make sense given that. Of course, they will just be hints > anyway due to platform conventions and user overrides.
That's not necessarily true. Dictionary members default to "absent" if they don't have a default value. So we could treat default as different from both true and false. But it tends to make for a confusing API to treat optional boolean arguments as different from false. / Jonas
