Converting any non boolean type into a boolean is always a lossy compression that will often need to be reversed later. If/else was invented so that you don't n

Converting any non boolean type into a boolean is always a lossy compression that will often need to be reversed later. If/else was invented so that you don't need to perform this compression at the variable level. I also don't like nullable fields in my databases. Anything nullable is representable as some form of coproduct - and can therefore be represented as a relationship to an entity with a property that can be joined to for terms of definition.