Mark Dickinson added the comment: I realise this was opened as a joke, but I actually consider this suggestion to be unridiculous. I've never felt comfortable with code that does "if x" rather than "if x != 0.0" for x a float.
What really makes this a no-go in Python is the equality between floats and ints, and then between ints and bools. If we want to maintain the invariant that x == y implies bool(x) == bool(y) then we end up making bool(0) and bool(False) true, the latter of which is clearly ridiculous. So not in Python, but perhaps in some other Python-like language with a notion of 'boolean context'. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20855> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
