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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (13 children)

What do you use instead of booleans ? floats ?

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  • [–] 40 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    strings "true" and "false" ofc like any sane developer

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I got a better one: O for true and N for false.

    Seen in production for quite important stuff (payment requests).

    O is from Oui, N from Non, of course!

    😐🫤

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    good fucking god

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    it allows for mood changes, some parts of the code can check charAt(0) == 't'others can do val != 'false' just let it flow.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Use a CHAR(1) you can then use it as an enumeration.

    Don't use T/F for true/false use it for the actual sematic meaning for the thing that the Boolean is toggling. E g. S for subscribed, U for unsubscribed, or whatever.

    It also means when you inevitably grow to needing a tri-state it makes sense.

    Unless SQLite actually supports enumerations, then just use them

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