[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
08 Mar 2002 19:31:24 +0100

"Hans Nowak" <wurmy@earthlink.net> writes:

This may be a minor issue, but this proposal will break code like

daysfeb = 28 + isleapyear(year) assuming that booleans cannot be added to ints. :-)

Under the proposal, this assumption is wrong. bool is defined as a subtype of int; 28+True is 29. Just try this code with the reference implementation given in your code.

Regards, Martin