PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[phil hunt]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:30:31 -0500, John Roth <johnroth at ameritech.net> wrote:
>
>The trouble is that 'bool' as a data type **isn't** the standard
>name from mathematics.

Nor are int, float, dictionary, etc.

> Correct usage is something like:
>"Boolean logic manipulates truth values." That is, the data
>type is a truth value (see, for example, "truth table".) The usage
>in programming languages is simply incorrect linguistically.

No, it is just different from the maths usage.

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