New statement proposal for Python

[Rainer Deyke]

"David LeBlanc" <whisper at oz.nospamnet> wrote in message
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> you mistake a simple example for how something would of necessity be
> done. it could just as esasily be "alias true : not none and not 0"

So what would the semantics of 'a == true' be?  There are two option, both
wrong (and I won't even mention the infinite number of other objects that
test as 'false').

>>> true = not None and not 0
>>> 5 is true
0
>>> 5 is not None and not 0
1
>>> 0 is not None and not 0
1


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