[Gretl-devel] Re: Readable aliases true/false
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 24.03.2020 um 08:38 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
> Hi,
> sorry, here is another one of those free-floating wishlist items: Some
> complex packages have functions with quite many arguments, among which
> often some boolean switches. The function calls would be easier to read
> if one could use some keywords for on-off/yes-no/true-false instead of
> the generic 1-0 (where it could be another general integer arg of
> course).
>
> So could gretl have trivial constants simply mapped to 1 and 0? For
> example like additional $-accessors: $true $false.
>
> If we don't want to have it as built-in stuff, one alternative could be
> to add functions true() and false() (without arguments I guess) to the
> extra package.
>
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?)
Allin