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[Python-Dev] Boolean transition

[Python-Dev] Boolean transition [Python-Dev] Boolean transitionPaul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:45:36 -0800
Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [Greg Ewing]
> > 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.
> 
> Of course.  But if Knuth continues growing more sensible over the years, in
> about a decade he'll rediscover APL <wink>.

I'll just thread as: "Booleans as a subtype of integers enables
APL-style programming." <0.3 wink>

 Paul Prescod



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