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[-] MultipleAnimals@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 week ago

strings "true" and "false" ofc like any sane developer

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago

I got a better one: O for true and N for false.

Seen in production for quite important stuff (payment requests).

O is from Oui, N from Non, of course!

😐🫤

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

The system I work on uses "Y" and "N".

[-] felbane@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

This is awful and aweful at the same time.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Non affective, non effective.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 26 points 1 week ago

good fucking god

[-] kubica@fedia.io 31 points 1 week ago

it allows for mood changes, some parts of the code can check charAt(0) == 't'others can do val != 'false' just let it flow.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 22 points 1 week ago

lord mary joseph make it stop

[-] sznowicki@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

And for double fun if the output doesn’t matter you can make if endsWith(“e”).

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