https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27881
Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC| |roan.katt...@gmail.com
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #9 from Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> 2011-03-06 20:45:20
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As Reedy and Bryan have said, this is just the way boolean attributes work in
the API. This is a convention that I don't particularly like either, but it was
introduced before my time and we've stuck with it ever since. Old properties
aren't gonna be moved to a true/false format because that would be a breaking
change (and we never make those for aesthetic reasons only, like Bryan said),
and introducing new properties with a true/false format while keeping old
properties with the present/absent format around would lead a weird,
inconsistent state where no one remembers which property uses which format any
more. So we're kinda stuck in the status quo.
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