On 9/16/2013 4:14 PM, R. David Murray wrote:

Well, we tend to avoid single boolean arguments in favor of differently
named functions.

The stdlib has lots of boolean arguments. My impression is that they are to be avoided when they would change the return type or otherwise do something disjointly different. I do not think this would apply here.

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Terry Jan Reedy

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