2009/10/1 Pieren <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Russ Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would it be a good compromise to say: > 1. a software application should always check boolean against > "yes/true/1" and not only "yes" > 2. the wiki shoudl "recommend" the "yes" > 3. a bot is setup to replace regularly all values "true" or "1" by > "yes" and "false" or "0" by "no" (and nothing else). > > In this way, mappers are still free to prefer "true" or "1" and we > "try" to keep some consistency. Or would this bot be banned ? > > Pieren >
The problem with this is that things are never that black and white there are aways shades of Grey. Simple Parsing might be quite happy with Yes/No or True/False, but 2 might mean something different to 1 while both can be inferred to mean yes. Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
