On Sep 22, 3:43 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > > Pekka Laukkanen: > >> but it still doesn't feel exactly right. Would it be worth submitting a > >> bug? > > > It feels wrong because it is. In a tidier language (Pascal, Java, etc) > > a boolean and an integer must be different types. > > Some would argue (and some did by the time Python grew a 'bool' type) > that what is wrong is to have a bool type in a language that already > have a wider definition of the truth value of an expression...
And some would argue that it was wrong to have such a wide definition for the truth value of an expression in the first place... Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
