PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.1017946214.8160.python-list at python.org>,
arthur.siegel at rsmi.com writes
>
>>[Guido]
>>> I don't think Boolean algebra is a big subject.
>
>>[David Eppstein]
>>> There are advanced graduate math books on Boolean algebra.
>> >[...]
>> >But these books' content is almost completely irrelevant for day-to-day
>> >computer programming.
>
>>[Mark]
>>>Don't you figure that's what Guido meant by saying it's not a 'big' subject?
>>>I mean, there are advanced philosophy books on Heidegger...
>
>Damn willies I tell you.
>
>Guido will always be right to a following that will work to find
>the meaning that makes him right.

In any large subject a 'Guido' will always claim to be bigger than 'God'
thus leading to Sergeant Pepper phenomena.
-- 
Robin Becker