Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 2:33:40 PM UTC+12, Ned Batchelder wrote: > > Why do you object to the type conversion to bool? > > It would be better if all such conversions were explicit
Why? It's entirely unambiguous: the expression of an ‘if’ statement *can only be* evaluated in a Boolean context. What else could the reader reasonably expect? -- \ “When I was a baby I kept a diary. Recently I was re-reading | `\ it, it said ‘Day 1: Still tired from the move. Day 2: Everybody | _o__) talks to me like I'm an idiot.’” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
