[Python-Dev] Boolean transition

[Greg Ewing]

martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis):

> "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams@rcn.com> writes:
> 
> > This rubs my expectations the right way. Does it foreshadow the
> > introduction of boolean operators (e.g. &, |, &&, ||)?
> 
> I hope not. "and", "or" is boolean enough, for me. No more line noise
> is needed.

We certainly don't need '&&' and '||' -- we already have them,
they're called 'and' and 'or'.

But if booleans are to become a separate type eventually,
I think that '&' and '|' should perform the standard
(non-shortcircuiting) boolean algebra operations on them.

In fact, that could be added now to the reference
implementation in the PEP -- I don't think it would
introduce any extra breakage.

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