Assignment Versus Equality
Rustom Mody
rustompmody at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 06:24:00 EDT 2016
On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 8:06:10 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:10 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > Analogy: Python's bool as 1½-class because bool came into python a good
> > decade after python and breaking old code is a bigger issue than fixing
> > control constructs to be bool-strict
>
> That analogy fails because Python bools being implemented as ints is not a
> bug to be fixed, but a useful feature.
>
> There are downsides, of course, but there are also benefits. It comes down
> to a matter of personal preference whether you think that bools should be
> abstract True/False values or concrete 1/0 values. Neither decision is
> clearly wrong, it's a matter of what you value.
>
> Whereas some decisions are just dumb:
>
> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-new-and-stupid/
Answered in "Operator Precedence/Boolean" thread where this is more relevant
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