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

[Andrew Koenig]

>> 6) Should we eventually remove the inheritance relationship
>> between Int and Bool?

>> I hope so. Bool is-a Int doesn't seem like the right relationship to
>> me, unless perhaps we make Int is-a Long... naah, not even then.

Guido> Hm.  In your favorite language bool is one of the integral types.
Guido> Doesn't that imply pretty much the same thing?

What it really implies is that arithmetic operations on bool values
are permitted and promote to int.

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