My .02 on PEP308 + an extra question.

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Mon Feb 10 20:44:21 EST 2003


Aahz wrote:

> Same reason that Guido finally broke down and added booleans:
> standardized spellings are worth a lot.

This is true, but there's more to Booleans than just standardized
spellings.  We all could live with False, True = 0, 1, but their
introduction makes them a full-fledged type.

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