PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Christian Tanzer]

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote:

> >If you called it "binary" instead of "bool" would it help you think of
> >it as being more like a number?
> >
> No. Because numbers are ordered, and bools are not. bools are selected
> elements from an unordered set of two possibilities.

FWIW, Ada and Pascal define booleans as ordered with False < True. In
both languages, you have to use `ord(x)` to get the integer equivalent
of a boolean value.

Both languages' booleans suck in comparison to Python's concept of
truth.

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