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Reconcile default value passing and default activation#3239

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Reconcile default value passing and default activation#3239
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@kdeldycke kdeldycke commented Mar 2, 2026

This is an attempt to address #3111, and explore the consequences of reconciling the two meaning of the default parameter:

  1. "Pass this Python value to my function if the flag isn't used", i.e. when default=True then function gets True
  2. "Activate this flag by default", i.e. when default=True then function gets flag_value

A way to do that would be to consider default=True as a sentinel (yes, you can call me the sentinel-guy), for non-boolean flags. We do it lazily in the get_default method to not interfere with class instanciation, which we implemented in #3225 to fix #3121.

This has the side-effect of refining the test cases introduced in 06847da for #3030.

@kdeldycke kdeldycke added this to the 8.3.2 milestone Mar 2, 2026
@kdeldycke kdeldycke marked this pull request as draft March 2, 2026 07:54
@kdeldycke kdeldycke changed the title Reconcile default value passing and default activation WIP: Reconcile default value passing and default activation Mar 2, 2026
@kdeldycke kdeldycke added bug f:parameters feature: input parameter types labels Mar 2, 2026
@kdeldycke kdeldycke force-pushed the fix-bool-flag-default-true branch from a61dcee to 22351f8 Compare March 2, 2026 08:00
@kdeldycke kdeldycke force-pushed the fix-bool-flag-default-true branch from 22351f8 to 41ed4bc Compare March 2, 2026 09:10
@kdeldycke kdeldycke marked this pull request as ready for review March 2, 2026 09:13
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Ah sorry I fuck-up jungling with all these PRs to rebase. This commit 6c4a77b shouldn't have been pushed to stable. It should have been part of this PR. I'll revert the changes.

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Ok, juste revert stable as it was via: bb7be1f

@kdeldycke kdeldycke force-pushed the fix-bool-flag-default-true branch from 41ed4bc to 1296a4c Compare March 2, 2026 09:19
@kdeldycke kdeldycke force-pushed the fix-bool-flag-default-true branch from 1296a4c to 4af30ca Compare March 2, 2026 09:21
@kdeldycke kdeldycke changed the title WIP: Reconcile default value passing and default activation Reconcile default value passing and default activation Mar 2, 2026
@Rowlando13 Rowlando13 modified the milestones: 8.3.2, 8.3.3 Mar 15, 2026
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