Discussion: Interpretation of system property flags

[Eirik Bjørsnøs]

>
> 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
>

Let me add:
d: Maintainers introducing new flags lack guidance for picking a "good"
flag interpretation
e: Maintainers introducing new flags must write new code to read the
property value and reduce the following to a boolean: [null | empty |
"true" | "TRUE" | "false" | "FALSE" | "unrelated"]

Eirik.
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