No Boolean type in "types"

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 13-Jun-00 Thomas Mangin wrote:
 >  I knew this, sorry I wasn't clear enough,
 >  Considering a "structural" point of view, having true and defined in a
 >  standard way
 >  and being able to "indicate" that the type is Boolean is a nice programming
 >  practice.
 >  In C one will use TRUE and FALSE. Those define are no more than integer too
 >  but help
 >  code readability. That is my point.

As I wrote earlier, there is no single boolean type. Integers, strings, 
lists, dictionaries, and even your own classes can be used as booleans.
You can do

  if {}:
    print 'Shouldn't happen!'

Defining a single boolean type is not only unnecessary, it's plain wrong.

/Mikael

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