Alan G Isaac wrote: > > Do you care to explain what is broken? > > I suppose one either finds coercion of arithmetic operations to int > to be odd/broken or does not. But that's all I meant. > > My preference would be for the arithmetic operations *,+,- > to be given the standard interpretation for a two element > boolean algebra: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element_Boolean_algebra
If I understand this right, the biggest difference from the current implementation would be that:: True + True == True instead of: True + True == 2 What's the advantage of that? Could you give some use cases where that would be more useful than the current behavior? It's much easier to explain to newcomers that *, + and - work on True and False as if they were 1 and 0 than it is to introduce them to a two element boolean algebra. So making this kind of change needs a pretty strong motivation from real-world code. Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list