True/False story... (PEP 285)

[Boris Borcic]

Petr Prikryl wrote:

> Boris wrote...
> 
>>Could be argued that there is no single natural mapping,
>>for an alternate to the current one we could have
>>
>>True     == 1
>>False    == -1
>>not x    == -x
>>x and y  == min(x,y)
>>x or y   == max(x,y)
>>x xor y  == -x*y
>>
>>A nice feature of that one (to my aesthetics), is that
>>
>>1j == sqrt(False)
>>
> 
> This alternate mapping breaks everything that exists now


It breaks nothing since it's not a PEP; and clearly it is natural enough 
not to break *everything* if it were and was adopted.


> and does not introduce anything better than the existing state.


A very boolean declaration, that :) In any case, look at context : 
nobody proposed it should take over the state.

Blind spots tax any vision. Many argued that enums were better than 
booleans; and cyclotomic fields are algebra's version of enums. Some 
mathematician wrote that a good representation is equivalent to a good 
teacher. Means it has to be inspiring.

Regards, Boris Borcic
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