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Re: Add \pset options for boolean value display

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> — 2025-10-21T11:26:50Z

út 21. 10. 2025 v 9:38 odesílatel Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
napsal:

> On 2025-Oct-20, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> > Thank you.  Seems good from a quick read.  I’m regretting the choice of
> the
> > display_ prefix; is there any technical limitation or other opposition to
> > using just true and false?
> >
> > \pset true ‘true’
> > \pset false ‘false’
> >
> > To keep in line with:
> >
> > \pset null ‘(null)’
>
> Uhm.  I don't know.  No technical limitation AFAICS.  It looks a bit
> weird to me, because those names are so generic; but also I cannot
> really object to them.  That said, such a last-minute bikeshed comment
> seems like a perfect way to kill your patch.


> I'll gladly take a vote.
>

I think so this is little bit different case

In this context I see three "safe" variants like

short: t, f
long: true, false
localized: nepravda, pravda (if this is available)
localized short is probably very messy - like 'n' and 'p' for Czech
language and never be used

In the Czech environment we mostly don't translate boolean constants in
computer science.

Regards

Pavel

Null is different - there is not known any formal symbol for null.


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