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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:47:33 -0500

[David Abrahams]

6) Should we eventually remove the inheritance relationship between Int and Bool?

I hope so. Bool is-a Int doesn't seem like the right relationship to me, unless perhaps we make Int is-a Long... naah, not even then.

Hm. In your favorite language bool is one of the integral types. Doesn't that imply pretty much the same thing?

Anyway, do you have a use case where it matters?

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