Discussion: Interpretation of system property flags

[Eirik Bjørsnøs]

>
> Practically, if we wanted to change such long standing behaviors
> in order to align on a new consistent handling for all the boolean
> properties.
>

There are at least three issues at play here:

a: Some flags use inconsistent, confusing, controversial or
less-than-perfect interpretations
b: Some flags use identical interpretations, yet their evaluation happens
in copy-pasted code spread across the code base
c: Some flags use identical interpretations, yet the code written to
evaluate that interpretation varies a lot across the code base

We should be able to tackle b and c above without any behavioral
compatibility issues.

Eirik.
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