Re: Ideas submitted: true & false for booleans & qualified ds for LOB sql types

Actually I liked Jon's comment "because we're not talking about light
switches."

Made me chuckle.


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On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM David Gibbs via RPG400-L <
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> On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM Patrik Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Just for curiosity: What's wrong with *on and *off?
> >
>
> Nothing specifically, but most modern programming languages use true &
> false.
>
> I think it would be good to have some parity.
>
> Gavin wrote:
> > Based on how I used to be "in the room", the True & False constants
> > will not see the light of day.
>
> Maybe ... but it seems to me that the idea should be trivial to implement.
>
> david
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