PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Harvey Thomas]

> In article <ualr7hmlhkemab at news.supernews.com>, John Roth
> <johnroth at ameritech.net> writes
> .....
> >Consequently, I think of it (0 and  1 as false and true) as a
> >hack carried over from C and similar languages.
> >
> >John Roth
> C is a very successful language. I don't think of its conditional
> testing as a hack, but then I'm an engineer. What works is good and
> Python's current conditional testing seems to work very well and
> moreover efficiently in many cases of interest.
> 
> Forcing all these into the (true, false) set using a Boole (if we're
> going to honour the man let's spell him right) variable seems 
> to put too
> much emphasis on formalism. It also ignores the eminent sense of not
> fixing unbroken things and not adding yet another current to 
> the Python
> type cake. 
> -I wish I had Kalmanian filter types-ly yrs- 
> Robin Becker

Couldn't agree more with you Robin. The PEP is definitely a -1 for me as well

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