Am 18.04.2011 21:58, schrieb John Nagle: > This is typical for languages which backed into a "bool" type, > rather than having one designed in. The usual result is a boolean > type with numerical semantics, like > > >>> True + True > 2
I find the behavior rather useful. It allows multi-xor tests like:
if a + b + c + d != 1:
raise ValueError("Exactly one of a, b, c or d must be true.")
Christian
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