[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Samuele Pedroni]

[GvR]
> I've spent an evening hacking.  There's now an experimental
> implementation of the PEP on SourceForge:
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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=528022&group_id=547
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> It including a unittest file, test_bool.py, which checks the promises
> made in the PEP, and a little bit of documentation.  (Unfortunately,
> because much about new-style classes in 2.2 is not yet documented,
> documenting bool as a subclass of int sticks out like a sore
> thumb. :-)
>

(This is a serious question) How do you imagine bool
presented to (non-programmer) newbies.

Not presented. Presented disjunct from int at the beginning.
Using the notion of subtyping/subclassing.
Operationally:
     True == 1
     False == 0
     etc .

Thanks. Samuele Pedroni.