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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I, uh, actually kind of like the idea. If you just visually converted primitives to a toggle after you type true/false, and let you delete it like any other text, it could be a small convenience on any flags you might change during the development process.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, I could easily see a trainwreck of an implementation. But if this was just a display option like color coding keywords and variables, but you could click to change the underlying true/false? I might add it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Beatiful. Magnificent indeed

To actual posisble implementations, it'd actually be interesting as an indicator next to the bool to make it easier to see when debugging

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean this as a joke but you might be right. A quick search suggests that no one implemented something like this yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As long as it's not literally a toggle that you can interact with.

I can only imagine the horrors of accidentally clicking in the editor while selecting some text and quietly changing certificateIsValid = false; to true or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Nah, make it a keybind like alt-shift-click and give it a deafening sound like throwing an industrial breaker.