[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?)