PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Christian Tanzer]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> I agree.  I can assure you that I *did* read Laura's objections carefully,
> but ended up disagreeing with her conclusion that accepting the PEP was a
> bad idea.  I was baffled that she and Alex used so many words to explain
> their position ("do I have to read and respond to all *that*?!" were my
> exact
> thoughts) and this made me speechless in response.  Eventually I recovered
> from the blow and decided that Laura's fear that adding bool would make her
> teaching job harder was ungrounded.  By then, so many words had gone back
> & forth that I didn't feel like going back and responding to her piece in
> detail -- others had done that and the discussion had blown up to such a
> volume that I didn't think I could convince any of the PEP's detractors
> anyway.  I apologize to Laura that my judgement came across as rude.

Thank you.

Did-your-PEP-secretly-try-to-change-Alex's-verbosity-level-too-?-ly yrs
Christian

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