Synonyms for logical operators (not, and, or)

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Hi
I prefer using the words not, or, and instead of !, ||, &&. Personally i think they are easier to type and read.
Is there a simple way to do this myself?
using compile time string substitution
or
reopening a class and adding three instance methods
or
any other solution?

Thanks

2

Hi!

No. The only way is forking the compiler.

3

Or you can use Nim (maybe others), which uses the conventions you want.

4

You could do this:

def not(thing)
  !thing
end

puts(not true)

class Object
  def or(other)
    self || other
  end
  
  def and(other)
    self && other
  end
end

puts false.or true

puts "hi".and "hello"

It looks funny, and probably doesn’t work in all cases, but that’s about as close as you might get :joy:

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