It's worth looking into CoffeeScript, in which true/false, yes/no, and on/off are all accepted. On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:04 PM Erica Sadun via swift-evolution < [email protected]> wrote:
> I propose adding yes and no to the standard library as aliases for true > and false Boolean values. When answering the questions posed by Boolean > properties and methods, "yes" and "no" may provide better fits than "true" > and "false". "Should this view be hidden?" "Yes!" "Does this collection > contain the number 2?" "No!". Objective-C solved this by adding macro > equivalents, admittedly with some attendant fuzziness because boolean > implementation details allowed non 0/1 truth values. > > Swift on the other hand has very firm ideas about true and false. Adding > yes and no literal aliases would enhance code readability with little cost. > There's minimal historic support among languages for yes/no but Swift is an > Apple-y kind of language and yes/no is an Apple-y kindness to developers. > > I performed a gmane search and did not find a previous thread on this > subject. > > -- E > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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