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

Andrew Koenig ark@research.att.com
30 Mar 2002 10:56:15 -0500

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.

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

What it really implies is that arithmetic operations on bool values are permitted and promote to int.