[Python-Dev] PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Erik Max Francis]

David Abrahams wrote:

> Well, I try not to play favorites <0.002 wink>, but the implicit
> conversion rules in C++ are admittedly and unfortunately liberal.
> However, bool is detectably NOT derived from int in C++:
> 
>     void f(int const&);
>     f(false); // error!
>     assert(boost::is_base_and_derived<int,bool>::value); // fails!

Of course it does; in C++, int and bool aren't even classes, much less
that they have some subclass relationship.

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