Graham Sutherland / Polynomial on Nostr: application settings should ideally always have a way to distinguish between "this ...
application settings should ideally always have a way to distinguish between "this variable is set to the default value" and "this variable has been explicitly set to a value by the user, and that value just happens to be the same as the default value", so that updates can make an informed decision about how to modify / remap a setting value as part of a new feature release.
the group policy "not configured" model and the Visual Studio "inherit" model are pretty good examples.
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