[Python-Dev] Boolean transition

[David Abrahams]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>

> Let's take this logic a little further. If you're arguing that booleans
> should be subtypes of integers because integers can be used in a boolean
> context then I guess booleans should ALSO be subtypes of strings and
> lists because strings and lists can also be used in a boolean fashion.
> 
> Using an integer as a boolean is common. I do it almost every day I
> program in languages with both types. Using a boolean as an integer is
> not common in my programming (though Tim's may be different). Where it
> crops up in my programming it is probably an error where I passed the
> parameters to the function in the wrong order.

+1!