Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> As discussed on IRC recently, several of us think that using “#true” and
> “#false” instead of “#t” and “#f” throughout or documentation and code
> would probably make it easier for newcomers to decipher that.
>
> WDYT?
>
> This syntax is supported since Guile 2.0.  ‘write’ still uses the
> abbreviations, but the good thing is that it means we can change all of
> gnu/packages without triggering a single rebuild.
>
> As for the manual, I’m afraid it’ll make every msgid that contains
> @code{#t} stale.  So maybe now’s not a good time to make this change?
>
> Thoughts?

What's the current status of #true/#false in the current Scheme
revision?  It doesn't seem to have been standardized yet, no?

I'd only agree to such a change if it's already been standardized in the
RnRS as such; #f and #t have a long history and I don't think they are
cognitively much harder to grasp than #false and #true, so the gain
seems small compared to the downsides (hurting git blame's effectiveness
across the code base, having to re-teach all contributors to use #true
and #false everywhere, augmenting the lint tools, etc.).

Maxim