PEP 285: Adding a bool type

Hernan M. Foffani hfoffani at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 3 07:56:33 EST 2002


"John Roth"
> Consequently, I think of it (0 and  1 as false and true) as a
> hack carried over from C and similar languages.

The hacks are zero false and not zero true. Both are JPZ, JPNZ
assembler instructions surviving in high level languages. :-)

Regards,
-Hernan







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