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[Python-Dev] Boolean transition

[Python-Dev] Boolean transition [Python-Dev] Boolean transitionGreg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:31:32 +1300 (NZDT)
Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net>:

> For example, see "Concrete Mathematics" (Knuth, Graham and
> Patashnik), where treating a true/false result as 1/0 is so common
> it's indicated merely by surrounding a predicate expression with
> plain square brackets.

The fact that they use a notation for that at all suggests
that even they didn't go so far as to regard booleans as
*identical* to integers.

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