[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

> I strongly support fixing this issue. This behavior is so fundamentally
> nonsensical that resolving it is worth the potential compatibility issues.
>

Does anyone know a language that (a) has a time-of-day class in stdlib; (b)
allows
instances of that class to be used in boolean context, and (c) has a
midnight
represented by an instance that is truthy?

Here is my example of an entirely independent of Python language [1] that
nevertheless
has the same behavior for time-of-day objects:

q)`boolean$00:00:00.000
0b
q)`boolean$00:00:00.001
1b

[1] http://code.kx.com/wiki/Reference/Datatypes
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