I think the counterargument would be if you are repeating the same code over and over to avoid passing boolean as a flag, then you are probably abstracting at the wrong level. At the same time, I'm not saying passing a boolean to a function is always a bad idea. There are ways to make it more readable as I mentioned in the article.
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I think the counterargument would be if you are repeating the same code over and over to avoid passing boolean as a flag, then you are probably abstracting at the wrong level. At the same time, I'm not saying passing a boolean to a function is always a bad idea. There are ways to make it more readable as I mentioned in the article.