Replace true with T and false with F
#1147
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Per discussion in hylang#908. True and False are still allowed. Allowing users to use these as variable names is probably more trouble than it's worth, and I figure this helps to smooth over human translation from Python code to Hy. It might be a good idea to use T and F consistently in Hy's own code, not to mention the documentation. (This preference could be stated in the style guide.) I added a bit to the documentation about the correspondences between True, False, None, and their synonyms because this didn't seem to be documented at all.
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I'm sorry but I'm 👎 on this. I feel it makes the code completely unreadable, it invents a convention and provides exactly no gain over |
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We should honestly get rid of But hey, that whole mess is my fault :) |
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(same with |
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@paultag, are you arguing for |
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Huh. |
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It makes sense to me that a programming language's most fundamental constants should have concise representations. |
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Well, it makes sense to me that they be readable. Racket’s #t and #f is hideous, for instance. Clojure does the sensible thing. And besides, it’s not as if the extra three or four characters take up that much space on a line of code. |
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This is a PR which may be closed and succeeded. Please discuss the matter on the tracking ticket #908. |
Per the straw poll in hylang#908, as an alternative to hylang#1147. Now you must use `True`, `False`, and `None`, as in Python. Or just assign `true` to `True`, etc.; the old synonyms aren't reserved words anymore.
Per discussion in #908.
TrueandFalseare still allowed. Allowing users to use these as variable names is probably more trouble than it's worth, and I figure this helps to smooth over human translation from Python code to Hy. It might be a good idea to useTandFconsistently in Hy's own code, not to mention the documentation. (This preference could be stated in the style guide.)I added a bit to the documentation about the correspondences between
True,False,None, and their synonyms because this didn't seem to be documented at all.