On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:14 AM Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I know why, but I'm not so sure -- no one was using a built in True or > False as an integer, because they didn't exist. > > No, but AIUI people were creating their own globals to do that job. > Indeed. The discussion around this was quite specifically that many people defined: True = 1 False = 0 At the top of their code, and used that. This was the main reason they were built-ins rather than keywords, so as not to break that large body of existing code. -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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