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

Andrew Koenig ark@research.att.com
03 Apr 2002 23:09:59 -0500

No. That would break backwards compatibility. False==0, and True==1; everything else follows from that. (But False is not 0, and True is not 1!)

Ping> This is a strange distinction to make -- one that is not made in Ping> any other programming language i have ever encountered.

I would be very surprised if none of the Lisp family of languages has similar anomalies in the relationship between eq and equal.

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