Boolean Blindness

Software characteristic wherein boolean values are used where more descriptive data types, such as enumerations or Sum Types could be used to more clearly signal intent.

2020-09-22

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Superpowered keyword args in Haskell
- One way to improve this situation is to make extensive use of newtype wrappers and avoid Boolean Blindness by utilizing more specific Sum Types. This is a pretty common idiom, and it helps a bit: