Timeline for Is there terminology for "true"ing, "false"ing, and toggling a boolean? [closed]
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| Mar 4, 2020 at 14:50 | comment | added | Andres F. | @CodesInChaos If you've read Popper, falsify would mean "make an observation which proves the statement false", and falsifiable would mean "I can think of observations that would prove this statement false, if they ever actually occurred" ;) I think you're thinking of "counterfeit" or "fake". | |
| May 7, 2018 at 15:23 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| May 5, 2018 at 17:10 | vote | accept | Anon | ||
| May 5, 2018 at 17:09 | vote | accept | Anon | ||
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| May 5, 2018 at 16:39 | history | closed | Robert Harvey gnat Thomas Junk Blrfl rwong | Opinion-based | |
| May 5, 2018 at 15:43 | answer | added | Peter Cordes | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 5, 2018 at 8:23 | answer | added | Pete Kirkham | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 5, 2018 at 4:28 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| May 4, 2018 at 19:58 | answer | added | Kevin | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 4, 2018 at 17:17 | answer | added | Nicholas Carey | timeline score: -3 | |
| May 4, 2018 at 16:45 | answer | added | Harrison Paine | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 4, 2018 at 15:38 | comment | added | NH. | @LukStorms, that sounds informal to the point of being silly to a native speaker. I might use it if I'm joking around with coworkers, though. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 15:15 | comment | added | LukStorms | How does "First he falsed that boolean, but then he trued it." sound? (English isn't my mother tongue, so native english speakers would just tolerate that without correcting me.) | |
| May 4, 2018 at 13:24 | comment | added | Freiheit | Are nullable boolean types out of scope here? | |
| May 4, 2018 at 12:34 | comment | added | Flater | @Wilson: ELU tends to not want to touch jargon with a ten foot pole. The question is likely to get closed or receive a non-programming-specific answer. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 12:33 | comment | added | Flater | "falsify" is really ambiguous. You expect it to mean "set it to false", but I read that as "intentionally set it to a wrong value". False and wrong are two very different things in a logical context. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 11:38 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | Maybe this question would attract good answers on ELU also. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 10:44 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | Are you sure you're expected to describe your code on such a low level? Surely if someone wants such a low level description, they'd just read the code. I'm not saying there's never a reason to use such terminology, but I would expect it to be rare. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 9:50 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | I'd read falsify as equivalent to creating a forgery and not setting the value to false. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 9:46 | comment | added | e_i_pi | I always thought it was called flipping, but apparently that's the term for bits, not bools | |
| May 4, 2018 at 9:38 | comment | added | David Arno | "First, I set the boolean foobar to true and, Second, I set the boolean foobar to false". Couldn't you have just set it false in the first place? ;) | |
| May 4, 2018 at 9:20 | comment | added | Filip Milovanović | "I set foobar to true/false" is not that wordy, and it's obvious that's a bool. "Toggle" is fairly clear to listeners, IMO. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 6:00 | vote | accept | Anon | ||
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| May 4, 2018 at 5:17 | answer | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | timeline score: 56 | |
| May 4, 2018 at 4:35 | answer | added | user44761 | timeline score: 65 | |
| May 4, 2018 at 3:59 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 4, 2018 at 2:45 | answer | added | Sir Wumpus IV | timeline score: -2 | |
| May 4, 2018 at 2:20 | history | asked | Anon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |