PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Erik Max Francis]

[Following up to my own post here.]

Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Where is the backward compatibility problem for using bool?  At
> present,
> no one uses it, so none of their types will be bools (right?).

Wasn't think this one all the way through; of course, it's when people
do comparisons that now return bools and do something explicit with
their return value, rather than just using its implicit booleanness. 
Never mind.

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