if the else short form

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <4ca96440$0$1674$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote:

>      Yes, "bool" is a subtype of "int" in Python.  This was
> because the original design of Python didn't have "bool"
> (a rather strange mistake for a language designed this late)
> and the retrofit had to have some backwards compatibility.

What’s the alternative? Java’s definition of “bool” is crap.

The Pascal/Ada approach was to introduce the general concept of “enumerated 
types”, which were a subclass of “discrete types” (including integers and 
subranges thereof). Boolean was just a built-in enumerated type.

What’s a language like Python, which has no enumerated types, to do?