On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 11:58:01 PM UTC+12, Jon Ribbens wrote: > I seem to recall that Java originally insisted that only booleans > (excluding even Booleans, which are a different thing because of > course they are) could be checked for truth and it was one of > Java's significant warts.
Java’s wart was it didn’t implement Booleans the way they were done in Pascal. That wouldn’t have been a wart. Python’s Boolean handling is a wart in the other direction. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
