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Should I create functions/methods for packages/libraries that allow optional parameters to accept null?

In this example below, I set the 3rd and 4th parameter as null which will act as the default value.

myLibrary.myFunction(1, 7, null, null, true);

Or is this not a good way to go about creating functions for a package and therefore should not accept null as a parameter value.

myLibrary.myFunction(1, 7, false, 4, true);
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

My recommendation for APIs that have optional parameters is to have an optional last options parameter, every property of which can be left unset. Makes it far clearer to the caller what those properties do.