Re: [RFC] export TRUE and FALSE from someplace

[John McDermott <jjm jkintl com>]

>> If the booleans do have a more specific meaning, other names should be
>> chosen (as Joe Smith demonstrated) with more semantic meaning:
>>
>>  $box->pack_start ($widget, NO_EXPAND, NO_FILL, 0);
>>  $window->signal_connect (delete_event => sub { return
>>  TOP_EVENT_PROPAGATION });
>... this is certainly very true.

*except that* there is no semantic meaning to the new definitions if they 
were just equal to TRUE/FALSE so
$box->pack_start ($widget, NO_FILL, EXPAND, 0);
would also be legal making things worse.

It might be nice to be able to do
$box->pack_start ($widget, expand=>FALSE, fill=>FALSE, pad=>0);
(or with yes/no, etc.) at least as an option.  That might help prevent a 
few errors that people like me make when we forget the order of the args 
after seeing:
$box->pack_start ($widget, 0, 0, 0);
:=)

--john
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