PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Erik Max Francis]

John Roth wrote:

> Ints are neither cardinal nor ordinal. They just are. Cardinal and
> ordinal are ways of analyzing the situation that may, or may not,
> apply.

Indeed, even in mathematics, the cardinal number that is represented
with "1" (that is, the cardinality of of a set with a single element) is
_not_ the same thing as the integer 1.  Same goes for ordinal numbers.

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