Tulosfalse

Tulosfalse is a term used in some Finnish-language programming contexts to indicate a negative or unsuccessful result produced by a function or process. The construction combines tulos, the Finnish word for result, with false, the boolean value indicating failure. In practice, tulosfalse acts as a symbolic status that can be logged, serialized, or used in control flow in codebases with mixed-language naming conventions.

Origin and terminology: The word tulos is common in Finnish software writing, and the use of English booleans like true and false in identifiers is common in multilingual teams. As a result, tulosfalse has appeared as a compact label to mark a failed outcome.

Usage: In some projects, a function may return or set a status variable with the name tulosfalse to signal that the computed result does not meet acceptance criteria. It may appear in test data, API responses, or configuration files, and is sometimes contrasted with tulostrue to denote success. Developers might rely on it in quick diagnostic logs or in legacy code.

Alternatives and variations: Some teams prefer explicit boolean fields such as isSuccess or success, while others use string values like "tulosfalse" or "false" in a field named tulos. Ambiguity can arise when mixing languages or when exporting data to systems that do not support non-ASCII identifiers. Clear documentation is advised.

See also: tulostrue; boolean flag naming; Finnish programming terminology; status codes.