[Python-ideas] Changing the meaning of bool.__invert__
Random832
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Thu Apr 7 16:08:37 EDT 2016
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, at 16:05, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Given that ~bool hardly make any sense currently, I would not expect it
> to be in much use now. Hence not much to break.
I suspect the fear is of one being passed into a place that expects an
int, and staying alive as a bool (i.e. not being converted to an int by
an arithmetic operation) long enough to confuse code that is trying to
do ~int.
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