Re: Ideas submitted: true & false for booleans & qualified ds for LOB sql types

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just for curiosity: What's wrong with *on and *off?

Nothing specifically, but most modern programming languages use true &
false.

I think it would be good to have some parity.

Gavin wrote:

Based on how I used to be "in the room", the True & False constants
will not see the light of day.

Maybe ... but it seems to me that the idea should be trivial to implement.

david

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