[Python-Dev] Wither PEP 335 (Overloadable Boolean Operators)?

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 25 02:10:12 CEST 2007


On 5/18/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> While reviewing PEPs, I stumbled over PEP 335 ( Overloadable Boolean
> Operators) by Greg Ewing. I am of two minds of this -- on the one
> hand, it's been a long time without any working code or anything. OTOH
> it might be quite useful to e.g. numpy folks.
>
> It is time to reject it due to lack of interest, or revive it!

Last call for discussion! I'm tempted to reject this -- the ability to
generate optimized code based on the shortcut semantics of and/or is
pretty important to me.

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