Feature #9107
closedIntroduce YES and NO as aliases of true and false
Description
I have a patch introducing the constants YES/NO as aliases of true/false. You can check it out here: https://github.com/gsamokovarov/ruby/compare/trunk...yes-no
While I don't expect this to be accepted, I think it can start a discussion around supporting it.
There is a movement in recent languages to let YES/NO express TRUE/FALSE. Objective C, CoffeeScript and markup languages like YAML are some examples of that. I thing it works really well for ruby scripts, used as configuration files. The rails config/* files seem like great candidates for YES/NO usage.
Implementation wise, I choose to go with TRUE/FALSE like constants, rather than extra yes/no keywords as it seemed to me like the most unobtrusive way to introduce those.
Please, excuse me if this has been discussed before.
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Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) almost 11 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Rejected
Define them by yourself in your application.
To be honestly, yes/no seems bit childish to me, a old guy.
Matz.
Updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas) almost 11 years ago
Oh, man, Redmine should have a "like" feature just like Facebook ;)
Updated by drbrain (Eric Hodel) almost 11 years ago
On 13 Nov 2013, at 08:16, rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas) rr.rosas@gmail.com wrote:
Issue #9107 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas).
Oh, man, Redmine should have a "like" feature just like Facebook ;)
What would liking help? Ruby is not a democracy.
Updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas) almost 11 years ago
I was just kidding, Eric. I liked Matz comment, that's all :)