[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1919

[Daniel Murphy]

I understand that using an enum is the normal phobos way to do this, but
would the following be acceptable?

auto sw = StopWatch().start();

I've used this design in C++ before.  Would this be acceptable for D/phobos?

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:12 AM, David Simcha <dsimcha at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisprog at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Friday 27 August 2010 11:42:54 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> > I think I mentioned this - the Timer class we use at work has startup
>> > dictated by true/false. Most of the code I'm reviewing uses:
>> >
>> >      Timer timer;
>> >      timer.start();
>> >
>> > thus wasting a vertical line (precious) over the simpler but confusing:
>> >
>> >      Timer timer(true);
>> >
>> > Another example from real code:
>> >
>> >      serialize(output, data, true, true);
>> >
>> > The first true means use Base64 encoding. The second means use
>> compression.
>>
>> Oh, I get what you're saying, and I don't exactly think that you're wrong.
>> I
>> just think that in many cases, bool works just fine. You often have to
>> look up
>> the function anyway, so the added clarity isn't much, and the added
>> verboseness
>> can be irritating. Obviously it can become a problem if you have multiple
>> bools,
>> and using enums instead can improve clarity in many cases, so using enums
>> does
>> have its advantages. When it comes down to it, I don't really have any
>> problem
>> with using an enum, but I don't really have a problem with bool either.
>> Honestly, I don't think that it ever would have occurred to me to use
>> anything
>> but an enum did you not propose that enums should be used instead in
>> Phobos.
>>
>> In any case, I've been using the enum model in the date/time code that
>> I've been
>> writing, so you won't have to worry about stray bool parameters in there.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
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>
> I generally prefer enums in public or package APIs (because they're more
> descriptive and not that much more verbose), but bools in module- or
> class/struct-private functions (because this way I don't have to define yet
> another type that I'm only going to use in a few places and not that many
> other people have to understand the code).
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