Issue #6126 has been updated by Egor Homakov.


It is good point but would you consider it like if/unless? they do same job but used in proper places.
p 1 if yes
p 2 unless no

Newbies learn rapidly. And 'yes/no' thing will be the first thing they will like in ruby(in the same time obscure 'true/false' is what other languages can suggest)

the issue seems even newbie-friendly and it is benefit too.

ps just, isn't this awesome?
user_authenticated = yes
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Feature #6126: Introduce yes/no constants aliases for true/false
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6126

Author: Egor Homakov
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
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I propose to have predefined constants of TrueClass and FalseClass - yes/no accordingly.
Benefits:
1. 'truefalse'.size - 'yesno'.size = 4 (!)
2. much more understandable and reasonable words. Well known by everybody on this planet.
3. would be nice feature to introduce. Object#no? so we could use.
puts 'horay!' unless will_you_marry_me.no?
but it is very small thing, !will_you_marry_me behaves the same.. nevermind if it doesn't look useful
4. in further releases of ruby we could use them by default and keep true/false only for compatibility e.g.:
[2] pry(main)> true
=> yes

to discuss:
1. how to manage with true-false constants
2. do you like it?

P.S. I hope it is not crazy proposal for Ruby 4.9.3. I believe that ruby is agile enough. thoughts?


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