true = 1

Mark McEahern marklists at mceahern.com
Fri Jan 11 20:24:31 EST 2002


I don't know whether this has ever been proposed, but how about built-in
"constants" for true and false?

	true = 1
	false = 0

This leads to eminently (slightly, negligibly?) more readable code; e.g.,

	def foo(boolean):
		if boolean:
			print "true"
		else:
			print "false"

	foo(boolean=true)

or:

	boolean = true
	foo(boolean)

Instead of:

	foo(boolean=1)

or:

	boolean = 1
	foo(boolean)

tru'ly yours,

// mark





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