[Python-Dev] bool conversion wart? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Feb 25 23:00:13 CET 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

How would this change be helpful? I'm utterly mystified by these suggestions that bool would be more useful if it didn't behave like an int in arithmetic.

I think there's a desire by some people to get rid of unnecessary conceptual baggage left over for historical reasons. Those people are mystified as to why anyone would want a boolean to behave like an int.

Personally I'm +0 on this. I wouldn't object if it happened, but I'm not pushing for it.

-- Greg

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