does anyone know why

Chris Losinger

they take fewer keystrokes than "TRUE" and "FALSE" !

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rastaVnuce

Well, they get away with selling their stuff at hilarious prices, why not get away with this?

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Jim Crafton

Because it's *specifically* used in ObjectiveC, which predates Apple's use of it, actually ask Brad Cox about it. YES and NO clearly indicate you're in ObjectiveC land, not C, so it's just a way to separate the two. Also given the style in ObjectiveC to have sentence like readability, it's not that surprising.

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Douglas Troy

Jim Crafton wrote:

Also given the style in ObjectiveC to have sentence like readability, it's not that surprising.

I believe it should be updated to reflect the almost hippie like status of the Apple culture:

if (TotallyBogus(NSObjectDude))
{
throw BogusDude();
}
else
{
NSObjectDude.Cool = "Awesome";
}

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Paul M Watt

Are iYes and iNo supported? When we are forced to use those values I think we will have a problem.

dighn

"does anyone know why apple thinks they can get away with BOOL values of \"YES\" and \"NO\" ?" Yes.

JimmyRopes

bulg wrote:

apple thinks they can get away with BOOL values of "YES" and "NO" ?

Because they can. :-D

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The Nightcoder

Well... in my CCBool function (a CBool replacement for VBScript), they can. I acknowledge True, T, Yes, Y and X as true, everything else as false. Or, to quoute a famous RFC... in good protocol design, you should be liberal in what you accept and pedantic about what you send (or something like that).

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Luc Pattyn

what is wrong with "YES" and "NO"? or do you want "YES", "NO", "Cancel"? :)

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Lost User

As well as iDon'tKnow?

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Jim Crafton

I think that would be

if ( YES == [iDont know] )
{
NSLog( @"I don't know" );
}

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Marc Clifton

Gary Wheeler wrote:

It's a California thing

In that case, I would have assumed that a bool would equate to "Gay" and "Straight". Marc

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Hans Dietrich

I think he wants YES NO CANCEL with an optional checkbox

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Roger Wright

Yes.

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bulg

I want a bool to be true or false. Not Yes or No! It's Objective C not bloody Prolog!!! The only time I want something in my program to evaluate to a "Yes" is when someone buys the damn thing. >.< I also loathe the IB & IBOutlet crap. CS4 got it so much more right, that I wish I could use it for a suitable native language.

Gary R Wheeler

Hmm... I would think sexuality would be better represented by a double whose value ranges between +1.0, exclusively heterosexual, and -1.0, exclusively homosexual (or vice versa).

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Gary R Wheeler

I believe the mnemonic is iDunno, or possibly iGuess.

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Marc Clifton

Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

Hmm... I would think sexuality would be better represented by a double whose value ranges between +1.0, exclusively heterosexual, and -1.0, exclusively homosexual (or vice versa).

Funny you mention that. I was talking with someone who says that psychologists believe that it's rare that people are on one extreme or the other. I guess the theory is that the majority of people fall between -1 and 0 or 0 and 1, and some cross over 0. I don't know. I think most of psychology is BS, but I guess like anything, it has its uses, up to a point. Marc

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Jeff Circeo

lol :-D

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