>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 11:06 AM Florian Schmaus <f...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> While the bash language has no boolean datatype, you can exploit the
>> fact that 'true' and 'false' are usually shell builtins:
>>
>> : "${MESON_VERBOSE:=true}"
>>
>> and then later
>>
>> if $MESON_VERBOSE; then
>> mesoncompileargs+=( --verbose )
>> fi> I think we generally try to avoid exploiting that behavior in ebuilds. > It's usually much more obvious to check for a non-empty string, or for > a specific value. Testing for a non-empty variable is also faster than executing "true" or "false" builtins from variable values. (Which doesn't play any role here, but readability of the code does.)
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