Timeline for Word to describe the quality of being optional or mandatory
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| Sep 3, 2015 at 11:10 | comment | added | ADTC | On second thought, condition (where it means a state that must be fulfilled) can also be a good alternative (though not a synonym of necessity or requirement). For example, "What is the condition to be met, with regards to this item?" "The item is mandatory" or "The item is optional". | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 10:59 | comment | added | ADTC | I arrived here as I wanted to check if "requirement" would be the right fit. As it's a synonym of "necessity" (with high relevance according to Thesaurus.com), I think it works too. "Requirement" sounds more formal that "Necessity" and I'm using it as a header for a column where the values are "Mandatory" or "Optional". | |
| Mar 6, 2015 at 14:27 | comment | added | Waggers |
@Roman Necessity is the quality (parameter/variable), not the state/value - for that you might use "necessary", "mandatory" or an antonym such as "optional". Something like if (foo.necessity == 'mandatory') doSmth(); elseif (foo.necessity == 'optional') doSmthElse(); else doNecNotSet(); is what we're talking about here. Necessity doesn't hold true/false values, it holds values like "necessary", "mandatory", "optional" etc. But treating English like a programming language isn't always the best way to go, because it isn't one.
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| Feb 9, 2015 at 12:06 | comment | added | Roman |
The problem with 'necessity' is that it doesn't play well in if-statements i.e. if (foo.necessity) doSmth() doesn't look good to me.
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| Apr 4, 2013 at 10:44 | history | answered | Waggers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |