PEP 285: Adding a bool type: yes, but not as int subtype

[Guido van Rossum]

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> Ype Kingma <ykingma at accessforall.nl> writes:
> 
> > I'd like to know whether this PEP merging all numeric types would also merge
> > the bool type into its evt. hierarchy.
> 
> See for yourself:
> 
> http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0228.html
> http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0242.html

But see also my comments on these two in
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/pepparade.html; neither PEP is likely to
have any effect on Python's future.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)