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

[Jason Orendorff]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Jason Orendorff wrote:
> >   C99:        true    false
> >   C++:        true    false
> >   C#:         true    false
> >   Java:       true    false
> >   JavaScript: true    false
> > 
> > (I can't find other case-sensitive languages with boolean types
> > to compare.)
> 
>     Modula-2:   TRUE    FALSE
> 
> :-)

Indeed!  But this is another argument in favor of "true" and "false",
of course, because all Modula-2's keywords are UPPERCASE and all
Python's keywords are lowercase.  (Likewise, in VB All Keywords
are Capitalized, so it makes sense to write True and False.)

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