Is there are good DRY fix for this painful design pattern?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:23:39 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:

> On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 5:44:18 PM UTC-6, MRAB wrote: [...]
>> Before using or'd-logic, you need to know whether the value could be
>> falsey, e.g. 0.
> 
> True. However. Steven failed to provide any info that might help us
> determine the types of these parameters, and as such, i was forced to
> take the liberty of assumption. 

Someone held a gun to your head?


> Now, while it's quite possible someone
> could assign dwarfy-named- symbols to implicit or explicit boolean
> values, i find it highly unlikely, and totally unintuitive. But then
> again, i have my suspicions about ths thread. ;-)

You mean things like passing 0 as an int argument, or "" as a string 
argument? Yeah, I see what you mean -- that would be such a weird thing 
to do...

/s



-- 
Steve