John Nagle wrote:
Pascal got this right. (A nice feature of Pascal was that "packed array of boolean" was a bit array). C, which originally lacked a "bool" type, got it wrong. So did Python.
If Python had had a boolean type from the beginning, it probably wouldn't have been a subclass of int -- that was more or less forced by backwards compatibility issues.
Java is in the middle, with an isolated "boolean" type but a system that allows casts.
I'm not sure that's all that much different from Pascal, where you can use ord() to turn a boolean into an int if you want to. At least you're being explicit. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
