PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[David Eppstein]

In article <3CA56915.62947DDC at alcyone.com>,
 Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:

> > I offer the following PEP for review by the community.  If it receives
> > a favorable response, it will be implemented in Python 2.3.
> 
> Outstanding!  I've been waiting and hoping for Booleans in Python since
> I first was introduced to it.

It's not an important issue to me, but I like the PEP.

> >     3) Should the constants be called 'True' and 'False'
> >        (corresponding to None) or 'true' and 'false' (as in C++, Java
> >        and C99).
> 
> I'm also a C, C++, and Java guy, but I think that True and False (rather
> than true and false) are more Python, as you say, given None.  Internal
> consistency makes more sense to me than matching other languages.

What he said.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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