PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Aahz]

In article <7xpu1bh481.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin  <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote:
>aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>
>> I think it might be possible to make changes in the way Guido-introduced
>> PEPs get presented to reduce the amount of shouting from people like
>> Laura.  I hold no hopes that anything would get better results from
>> people like Arthur and Paul Rubin.
>
>I'm mildly opposed to the bool PEP but it's not that big a deal for
>me.  I'm more unhappy with the process that results in adding
>something like that to a minor version (2.3).  If it was saved for
>3.0, I think that would make more sense, for reasons I've explained.
>There are other features that I would LIKE to see added, like
>assignments in expressions; but those, too, shouldn't first appear
>in a minor release.

Assignments in expressions will never happen.

That said, seems to me that booleans are the stuff of a minor release,
unless you claim that minor releases should never contain language
changes.
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