On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:58:39 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au> writes: >> What Python does instead is to accept *any* object in a context where >> other languages (such as Pascal) would insist on a boolean. > > I'm aware of what Python does, just saying I can sympathize with the > sentiment that explicit conversions would make more sense. I wouldn't > change it in Python since it's what we're all used to, but if I were > designing a language from scratch I'd probably make it explicit.
Fair enough, and that's a reasonable design choice too. Ruby, for example, only has two false values: False and Null. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
