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True/False instead of YES/NO in output
By pribic, history, 4 years ago, In English

A lot of time we have seen problems where we need to output a YES or No. Usual way of doing this is flag ? "YES" : "NO" however many programming language supports directly printing boolean as True or False.

So is there any specific reason we are asked to print YES/NO instead TRUE/FALSE?

Here is a simple diff between both approach:

System.out.println(flag? "YES" : "NO" );

vs

System.out.println(flag);

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4 years ago, # |
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This isn't a usual way to do this. Not everybody store YES/NO answer in a variable. More often, it's multiple checks like if(...) { print("YES"); return; }.

And you're suggesting something convenient for Java. Your new improved line would print 1 or 0 in C++, unless we add boolalpha command.

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