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

[Erik Max Francis]

David Eppstein wrote:

> In article <mailman.1017930740.20674.python-list at python.org>,
>  Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think Boolean algebra is a big subject.  I bet that most
> > people only learn about it explicitly when they learn computer
> > programming.
> 
> There are advanced graduate math books on Boolean algebra.
> For instance Halmos's _Lectures on Boolean Algebras_ or possibly
> Johnstone's _Stone Spaces_.  So the subject may be bigger than you
> think
> it is...

Operative word here being _most_.

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