PEP 285: Adding a bool type

John Roth johnroth at ameritech.net
Wed Apr 3 06:40:00 EST 2002


"Huaiyu Zhu" <huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:slrnaakn16.17k.huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com...
> I don't think Guido follows this thread. I hope someone at least refer
to
> him Laura's and Alex' excellent articles.
>
He saw it. His response was that Laura's article was FUD.
My take on it is that the root of her problem is a poorly
chosen name - there would be exactly **no** pedagogical
issue if the function was named "numberOfLeapDays()"
instead of "isLeapYear()"

John Roth







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