Feature #9107: Introduce YES and NO as aliases of true and false

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[gsamokovarov (Genadi Samokovarov)]

I have a patch introducing the constants YES/NO as aliases of true/false. You can check it out here: https://github.com/gsamokovarov/ruby/compare/trunk...yes-no

While I don't expect this to be accepted, I think it can start a discussion around supporting it.

There is a movement in recent languages to let YES/NO express TRUE/FALSE. Objective C, CoffeeScript and markup languages like YAML are some examples of that. I thing it works really well for ruby scripts, used as configuration files. The rails config/* files seem like great candidates for YES/NO usage.

Implementation wise, I choose to go with TRUE/FALSE like constants, rather than extra yes/no keywords as it seemed to me like the most unobtrusive way to introduce those.

Please, excuse me if this has been discussed before.

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

Define them by yourself in your application.
To be honestly, yes/no seems bit childish to me, a old guy.

Matz.

[rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)]

Oh, man, Redmine should have a "like" feature just like Facebook ;)

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

On 13 Nov 2013, at 08:16, rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas) [e-mail] wrote:

Issue #9107 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas).

Oh, man, Redmine should have a "like" feature just like Facebook ;)

What would liking help? Ruby is not a democracy.

[rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)]

I was just kidding, Eric. I liked Matz comment, that's all :)