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> On 2008-06-17 17:32:47 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
>> On 2008-06-17 15:11:42 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>
>> > 2008/6/17 Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>:
>> >
>> > > On 2008-06-17 11:24:53 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > 2008/6/12 Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>:
>> > > >
>> > > > > class _Directory(object):
>> > > > > - def __init__(self, needs_current_series = True):
>> > > > > + def __init__(self, needs_current_series = True, log = True):
>> > > >
>> > > > i.e. we make log = False here by default.
>> > >
>> > > I might not have understood precisely what you meant; but I
>> > > don't think API backwards compatibilty should be an issue here?
>> > > I simply fix all callers. If log should default to true or false
>> > > is immaterial -- it just means some extra text in one or the
>> > > other of two equally common cases.
>> >
>> > Not an issue, I just favour the existing one when the two cases
>> > are almost equal.
>>
>> Fair enough. I'll change it.
>
> I had an even better idea: no default value. Every caller gets to say
> either log = True or log = False, which makes it immediately obvious
> to the reader. (That is, every caller still using the old
> infrastructure; with the new infrastructure, we log if and only if a
> transaction is run.)