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

[Guido van Rossum]

[David Abrahams]
>       6) Should we eventually remove the inheritance relationship
>          between Int and Bool?
> 
> I hope so. Bool is-a Int doesn't seem like the right relationship to
> me, unless perhaps we make Int is-a Long... naah, not even then.

Hm.  In your favorite language bool is one of the integral types.
Doesn't that imply pretty much the same thing?

Anyway, do you have a use case where it matters?

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