[Gretl-devel] Re: Readable aliases true/false

Am 07.04.2020 um 15:47 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: >> On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> Hi, if nobody objects (or has any other feedback) I would eventually go >>> ahead with adding these trivial functions to the extra addon. >> >> I'm not averse to adding $true and $false a built-in constants. Any >> discussion? >> >> (In some ways TRUE and FALSE would be nicer, but I guess we've been >> trying to standardize on $-ids for internals. Could we make an >> exception here?) I was initially also thinking of TRUE / FALSE, but then thought $true would fit in better with hansl's style. OTOH I guess you could argue that the $-accessors are not constants (well, except $pi). Of course TRUE really jumps into your face. (True ?) > > I still fail to see what the advantage is, but maybe it's just me. I > see no adverse side effects. so let's go. > IMHO it's just easier to read a function call, given that hansl doesn't have named arguments. foo(&mybundle, X, 1, 5,  0, 1) versus foo(&mybundle, X, TRUE, 5,  FALSE, 1)