On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:05:37 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: >>The *only* reasonable place to stop is right at the beginning: if >>bool(x): >>at least for languages like Pascal and Java where `if` requires a >>specific boolean type. > > In Java, not only does the if-statement require a boolean expression, > but one also cannot convert other types into boolean!
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't mean to imply that literally "bool(x)" would be valid Java, or Pascal. If I remember correctly, in Pascal the name of the type is "boolean". -- Steven D'Aprano “You are deluded if you think software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can write virtualization layers without security holes.” —Theo de Raadt -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
