On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 16:35 +0200, mg wrote: > A quick search did not turn up anything on Kotlin using bool instead > of boolean. Do you have a link ?
Maybe I just mis-remembered. If it is the case that Kotlin is using Boolean not Bool, then surely Java, Kotlin and Groovy all using Boolean is a consistency worth having? > To me brevity - as long as readability/code comprehension does not > suffer - is always a desirable feature.Otherwise Groovy's each would > be forEach or forEachElement or maybe even > applyClosureToEachElementInDefaultOrder.Other examples are println > which should be printLine or printInNewLine. Again println is println because Java has println. The core here is that Groovy does what Java does wherever possible. Resorting to stupid names such as applyClosureToEachElementInDefaultOrder is because Java in the 2000s got a very silly naming strategy for all the stupid types forced on people by various frameworks. each probably should be forEach. Many language introducing this higher order function went for that name. Groovy perhaps chose too early. But it is too late now, each it is. Similarly collect probably should have been map and inject probably should have been filter. However 2003 and Smalltalk. It is as it is. > "bool" in C++ at least seems to be from slightly before 2000, btw. It > seems the unwieldy "boolean" is actually the older term. And not a > well choosen one at that, since due to allowed values of [true, > false, null] in Java/Groovy the resulting algebra is actually not > Boolean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra) :-) bool entered C++ in the ISO 98 standard, prior to that there was no boolean type, just an interpretation of integral values. For C it was C99 standard. Anything like boolean was a compiler-specific extension. The actual type prior to that was int. That C and C++ chose bool is as much to do with why they chose int as it is to do with readability or comprehensibility. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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