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createUser(user, true, false) works. It's also surprisingly hard to read. Here's why I've stopped writing APIs like this in JavaScript.
  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
    101·
    6 days ago

    Rust doesn’t need this as much because it has enums so you can just do create_user(user, Role::Admin, Notify::None).

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      you can have a better data structure in any language, but rarely someone will bother doing that for booleans

      • Traister101@lemmy.today
        3·
        6 days ago

        Right cause the boolean isn’t a named type. If you have two possible states that can be represented with a boolean, or an enum of the two possible states which embeds more info into the callsite

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
        1·
        5 days ago

        Yeah I do wonder if we need an easier way to declare these things because programmers are lazy and even in Rust I wouldn’t always bother.

        You can kind of do it in Typescript with strings:

        function create_user(role: "admin" | "normal")

        But of course the downside is they are strings at runtime. I’m sure it’s possible though.