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xigoi on April 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)

on/off also doesn’t make sense in many contexts, for example `isRegistered: on`.

qw on April 13, 2025 | [–]

I often prefer enums over booleans for this. It seems more readable for most cases, and can be extended with new values.

This:

    isRegistered: true

could be replaced with

    accountStatus: "UNREGISTRED"

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