Re: Should ✔ be truthy?

2013-04-18 Thread Laurent DAVERIO
> :) I'd imagine we all do, but that brings up an interesting point. This > would obviously be most seen in .py files. One can just imagine > projects w/ various libraries from different third parties with > different coding standards with check marks in some modules or even in > some functions in

Re: Should ✔ be truthy?

2013-04-18 Thread M. Page-Lieberman
:) I'd imagine we all do, but that brings up an interesting point. This would obviously be most seen in .py files. One can just imagine projects w/ various libraries from different third parties with different coding standards with check marks in some modules or even in some functions in the same

Re: Should ✔ be truthy?

2013-04-18 Thread Laurent DAVERIO
Personally I don't have a strong opinion on the matter. All I can say is that I spend more time in .py than in .ini files ;-) Laurent. > I hope this is some kind of a belated april joke. Please let us stay with > true, false, 0, 1, 2, 3... otherwise we might end up with stuff like > nope, why no

Re: Should ✔ be truthy?

2013-04-18 Thread M. Page-Lieberman
I thought it was silly at first, but then found it easier on the eyes and quicker to confirm what's enabled. Still, requesting a change to the core language/library through additional code (with the inevitable introduction of more bugs) in order to support some syntactic sugar that really doesn't p

Re: Should ✔ be truthy?

2013-04-17 Thread Petr Blahos
> Recently I was setting up configuration for a new project and was trying > to do the obvious thing in my .ini: > > pyramid.reload_templates = ✔ > pyramid.debug_authorization = ✖ > pyramid.debug_notfound = ✖ > pyramid.debug_routematch = ✖ > pyramid.debug_templates = ✔ > > > To my surprise, the che

Re: Should ✔ be truthy?

2013-04-17 Thread Tjelvar
Hi John, Your .ini file looks very cool :) It may be worth bearing in mind that the "check" mark can have different connotations in different cultures. When I grew up in Sweden it was used to highlight exam questions that I answered incorrectly. There is some more information about this on wik

Should ✔ be truthy?

2013-04-17 Thread John Anderson
Hello my fellow aliens! Recently I was setting up configuration for a new project and was trying to do the obvious thing in my .ini: pyramid.reload_templates = ✔ pyramid.debug_authorization = ✖ pyramid.debug_notfound = ✖ pyramid.debug_routematch = ✖ pyramid.debug_templates = ✔ To my surprise, t