PEP 285: Adding a bool type
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sun Mar 31 01:48:40 EST 2002
Peter Hansen wrote:
> Agreed on that point. "bool" would be less clear to newcomers and
> possibly those with limited English. (Vague assumption there that
> those people might have heard of Boolean algebra but might not
> link it to the shorter form as quickly.)
>
> Besides, if we're doing this to look like the other languages,
> don't they use "boolean" more often? (I realize that's not
> really the reason for doing this.)
C++ uses bool, C99 uses _Bool, Java uses boolean ...
I can see both ways here. I'm more used to seeing bool, but wouldn't
object to boolean.
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