Hi, On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Anand Kumria wrote: > Allowing 'yes' and 'no' to equal 'true' and 'false' respectively sounds > pretty sane and user-friendly. > > Why wouldn't you want to do that? 'Cause you'd have to add "maybe", too ;-) Seriously, there is a subtle side to booleans, which is the reason that they typically take on only "false" and "true": Consider the question "Is the box not red?". If the answer is "yes", I do not know if "yes, the box is red" or "yes, the box is not red". "true" and "false" are less ambiguous. Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html