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

[Christian Tismer]

Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> 
> 
>>Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>:
>>
>>
>>>Guido's proposal is for bool to be a
>>>subclass of int.  Consequently, 28 + True should yield 29
>>>
>>But True - 1 won't equal False. Should it?
>>
> 
> Despite that Guido said "no" here, I think the answer is "yes", and
> the first sentence is wrong: True - 1 == False. True - 1 won't be
> identical with False, but it will be equal to it.


Sigh... Having read this huge thread now in 2.5 hours,
I can't say I like this stuff too much.
Why allow coercion to int at all?
We can use Int(False), like we can use Bool(42).

But still I think keeping Bool and Int completely disjoint
types was a very well thought-out decision of Nikolas Wirth,
and I wish very much that Python goes the same clean way
or stays where it is!

Please let's make a true type, no compromizes, no repr
issues, no arithmetic operations, absolutely unrelated
and really incompatible to integer, also no < relation.

Python-looks-more-and-more-perlish-to-me - ly y'rs - chris

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