[Yaml-core] Re: True/False representation

[Jeremy R. <jr...@fa...>]

Oren:
> Less desperate notion: Use '!' for 'false'. Its use as a "not" operator is 
> well established in many programming languages, so it is "reasonably" 
> mnemonic. It requires a slight twisting of the rules, since '!' is the 
> indicator for tags. However, since tags can never be empty, a '!' by itself 
> is not ambiguous:
> 
>     true: +
>     false: !
> 
> Hmmm. Not as nice as using '-', but not _too_ bad. Also, keep in mind this is 
> merely the canonical form, similar to ~ for null. Both null and booleans we 
> also support alternate presentations which are English based - null, 
> true/yes/on, false/no/off.
> 
> I think I like this. What do people feel?

...Thinking a bit outside the box: no need to restrict yourself to
one-character, neh?

  true:  =
  false: !=

or

  true:  +
  false: {}

(Which might make you grumpy for other reasons, I realize.)


...Just trying to stimulate thought; don't have any arguments to support
the notion.  :)