PEP 285: Adding a bool type
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sat Mar 30 02:30:40 EST 2002
[Following up to my own post here.]
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Where is the backward compatibility problem for using bool? At
> present,
> no one uses it, so none of their types will be bools (right?).
Wasn't think this one all the way through; of course, it's when people
do comparisons that now return bools and do something explicit with
their return value, rather than just using its implicit booleanness.
Never mind.
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