Logic problem: need better logic for desired thruth table.

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:20 PM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> The possibility of spelling these with the comparison operators, as some
> have suggested, is a consequence of Python's implementation where True
> == 1 and False == 0. In other languages bool may not be relatable (or at
> least not orderable), or False may be == -1.

True. That said, though, using 0 for False and 1 for True is easily
the most common convention in use today, and the next most likely case
is that comparing booleans would give a simple and immediate error. So
it's most likely to be safe to do. Cross-language compatibility is a
tricky thing anyway; there are all sorts of odd edge cases, even with
otherwise-similar languages (Pike and Python, for instance, have
slightly different handling of slice ranges), so anything that's done
in Python is meant to be interpreted with Python semantics.

ChrisA