Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:42:01 +0200, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > > >>Alan G Isaac wrote: >> >> >>>My preference would be for the arithmetic operations *,+,- >>>to be given the standard interpretation for a two element >>>boolean algebra: >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element_Boolean_algebra >> >>>>>[bool(True+True), bool(True+False)] >> >>[True, True] >> >>Works for me, or did I misunderstand you? > > > It seems to me that you deliberately misunderstood him. Why else would you > type-cast the integers 2 and 1 to bools to supposedly demonstrate that > there's nothing wrong with operations between bools returning ints? [snip]
No, I think Bjoern just wanted to point out that all those binary boolean operators already work *perfectly*. You just have to emphasize that you're doing boolean algebra there, using `bool()`. "Explicit is better than implicit." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
