On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 05:32 pm, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 11:58:01 PM UTC+12, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> I seem to recall that Java originally insisted that only booleans >> (excluding even Booleans, which are a different thing because of >> course they are) could be checked for truth and it was one of >> Java's significant warts. > > Java’s wart was it didn’t implement Booleans the way they were done in > Pascal. That wouldn’t have been a wart.
Oh? How are Java booleans different from Pascal booleans? Are you referring to "boxed" booleans, i.e. native bools in an object wrapper? -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
