In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Reedy wrote: > From this viewpoint, objecters would instead have to argue that it is > wrong to have such implicit calls and that programmers should have to > put them in explicitly.
But then again, you want to avoid unexpected restrictions like in Java, where bool is a separate type, and while it is discrete, it cannot be used to index arrays. (Cf Pascal, where any discrete type could be used as an array index type.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list