[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 285: Adding a bool type
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Tue Apr 2 17:40:31 EST 2002
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I don't see the introduction of the bool type as painful at all.
>
> I find getting it accepted painful though. :-(
I think of it in very simple terms: True and False are just
self-documenting values that indicate that you're talking about a
Boolean value rather than something else -- and enabling the ability to
write self-documenting code is always good. For backward compatibility
concerns, bool must be implemented as (effectively) a subclass of int.
Very little code will break with the introduction of the PEP. That is
all.
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