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I'm aware, but "mimic" is the key word here. Other languages are named-first. E.g. in Swift nobody is thinking "should I name this parameter?". They name it by default, because they have to choose an internal name anyway, and they only reach for the anonymous-parameter feature after explicitly considering "should I make this parameter anonymous?"

In other words, this blog post is practically irrelevant to those languages.

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I don't agree. One can easily imagine how the "a bool for every edge case" approach won't scale for long when extending an existing code base. Regardless if the language or IDE makes you see the names of the booleans or not. I think the author's point is not so much about the names but about abstraction and concepts. Slapping another bool parameter onto a function and bifurcating its behavior with an `if` is easy to do, but hard to refactor once this has been done a couple times to that function.

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