On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 01:11:08PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote: > /* > * Here provide a series of helpers in the str_$TRUE_$FALSE format (you can > * also expand some helpers as needed), where $TRUE and $FALSE are their > * corresponding literal strings. These helpers can be used in the printing > * and also in other places where constant strings are required. Using these > * helpers offers the following benefits: > * 1) Reducing the hardcoding of strings, which makes the code more elegant > * through these simple literal-meaning helpers. > * 2) Unifying the output, which prevents the same string from being printed > * in various forms, such as enable/disable, enabled/disabled, en/dis. > * 3) Deduping by the linker, which results in a smaller binary file. > */ Printf modifiers would've covered all of that, though... The thing is, <expr> ? "yes" : "no" is visually easier to distinguish than str_yes_no(<expr>), especially when expression itself is a function call, etc. So I'd question elegance, actually...
