Guido van Rossum wrote: > False and True are numbers [...] That's exactly where this falls down. Patrick O'Brien wrote: > [...] True and False could be dictionary keys separate from 0 and 1. Guido van Rossum wrote: > No. That would break backwards compatibility. False==0, and True==1; > everything else follows from that. (But False is not 0, and True is > not 1!) This is a strange distinction to make -- one that is not made in any other programming language i have ever encountered. Of course *i* get it and *you* get it -- but it will be so hard to teach this particular weirdness that i consider it fatal to the proposal. -- ?!ng
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