[Swift-user] Treatment of booleans in Swift

[Bronevetsky, Greg]

I've been working with Booleans recently and I've run into a couple of issues with them that might be a problem for others:

-          tracef doesn't have a format option for Booleans, forcing me to convert them to strings. Running @toInt on a Boolean produces: "java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "false"".

-          It is not clear how to format files to be read by readData() if the data in question is a Boolean. Based on experimentation I discovered that the correct strings are "True"/"False" rather than "true"/"false" or "0"/"1". It would be useful to document this in the description of readData().

Greg Bronevetsky
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
(925) 424-5756
bronevetsky at llnl.gov<mailto:bronevetsky at llnl.gov>
http://greg.bronevetsky.com

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