Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

[Raymond]

> Given that & | and ^ are closed under bools [...]

So maybe the right fix is to change that fact? I'm not sure what the value of 
having True & True return True rather than 1 is, beyond misleading people into 
thinking that bitwise operators "just work" as logical operators on bools. 
Having True & True give 1 would send a clearer message that "yes, this works, 
but only because of the bool-is-an-int relationship, and it's not the right way 
to do logical operations".

Does anyone know what the rationale was for having & and | on bools return 
bools in the first place?

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