On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:37:38 -0700, Rob Wolfe wrote:
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> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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>> From a purely functional perspective, bools are unnecessary in Python. I
>> think of True and False as syntactic sugar. But they shouldn't be
>> syntactic sugar for 1 and 0 any more than they should be syntactic sugar
>> for {"x": "foo"} and {}.
>
> But `bools` are usefull in some contexts.
Agreed. Syntactic sugar is useful, even though it is unnecessary. I'm not
against having bools. I just want them to be Booleans, not dicts, or
lists, or sets, or even integers.
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