[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1017930740.20674.python-list at python.org>,
 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> I don't think Boolean algebra is a big subject.  I bet that most
> people only learn about it explicitly when they learn computer
> programming.

There are advanced graduate math books on Boolean algebra.
For instance Halmos's _Lectures on Boolean Algebras_ or possibly 
Johnstone's _Stone Spaces_.  So the subject may be bigger than you think 
it is...

But these books' content is almost completely irrelevant for day-to-day 
computer programming.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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