+1 from me. -bt
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Parker Selbert <par...@sorentwo.com> wrote: > To me it seems like the Python shell inconvenience of "did you mean quit" > when you type exit (or the other way around, I can't recall). Clearly they > mean `true` regardless. Beyond True, False, and Nil I don't see what else > this could apply to–the slope isn't that slippery. If it is an easy win and > it makes transitioning easier, why not. > > On Aug 13, 2016, at 4:25 PM, Andrea Leopardi <an.leopa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > As I mentioned in IRC, I think this is a slippery slope. We never mention > True/False in the docs and Erlang does not have them; if the warning > would be specifically for Haskell and Python programmers, than we should > ask ourselves, should we try to warn on everything in Elixir that looks > like something in another language? For example, when I go back and forth > between Elixir and Ruby, I put the do in def in Ruby, and I imagine many > people coming from Ruby will forget the do in def when using Elixir: > should we warn on such cases? This may not be the best example given that > the warning on True/False is quite straightforward and non-intrusive to > implement while warning on missing do would require changes to the parser > and so on, but I hope it conveys the idea. > > > > Andrea Leopardi > an.leopa...@gmail.com > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:58 PM, José Valim <jose.va...@plataformatec.com. > br> wrote: > >> I am at first positive on this change. There is at least two mainstream >> languages that use True and False: Haskell and Python. Although I am not >> sure the warning will be really helpful at large, I don't think we would >> lose anything as it is quite unlikely someone has a module named True (or >> False). So it seems like a net benefit. >> >> What are other people thoughts? >> >> >> On Saturday, August 13, 2016, miwee <me.my...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I recently got bitten by this. I used True/False, thinking them as >>> boolean values true/false. Got no warning, but code failed. Partly reason >>> is that I was recently alternating between python and Elixir code base. >>> Python uses True/False. 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