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Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?
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Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas |
Subject: |
Re: Using #true and #false everywhere? |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:06:58 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
I didn't send this to the list... I must start using S L always instead
of R and changing the headers manually, sorry. :o)
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Hi Ludo,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hello Guix!
>
> As discussed on IRC recently, several of us think that using “#true” and
> “#false” instead of “#t” and “#f” throughout or documentation and code
> would probably make it easier for newcomers to decipher that.
>
> WDYT?
I think that it could help to the reader.
> This syntax is supported since Guile 2.0. ‘write’ still uses the
> abbreviations, but the good thing is that it means we can change all of
> gnu/packages without triggering a single rebuild.
This is even better. :)
> As for the manual, I’m afraid it’ll make every msgid that contains
> @code{#t} stale. So maybe now’s not a good time to make this change?
It may be a big issue with a release in one week, but on the other hand
the msgids would break just after releasing...
Maybe other translators have a say.
Happy hacking!
Miguel
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