ACCEPTED: PEP 285

[Erik Max Francis]

James Logajan wrote:

> Too bad. I believe his name was spelled Boole, not Bool or Boolean.
> You had
> a chance to properly honor him and didn't for some reason. Why drop a
> single letter of a dead man's name? This seems to be a pettiness that
> has
> gained universal appeal, alas. Shades of "creat" versus "create".
> Maybe
> there is some conspiracy against the letter "e" on the end of words?

Could you find something better to complain about?

"Bool" is a standard abbreviation, like it or not.

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