From: "gsamokovarov (Genadi Samokovarov)" <gsamokovarov@...>
Date: 2013-11-13T23:36:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:58312] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9107][Open] Introduce YES	and NO as aliases of true and false


Issue #9107 has been reported by gsamokovarov (Genadi Samokovarov).

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Feature #9107: Introduce YES and NO as aliases of true and false
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9107

Author: gsamokovarov (Genadi Samokovarov)
Status: Open
Priority: Low
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Target version: 


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.


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