Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 2:25:48 PM UTC+12, Ben Finney wrote: > > Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > > > > > 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? > > <http://lwn.net/Articles/590299/>
That reference supports my position: The only reasonable interpretation of the expression specified to ‘if‘, is that it is interpreted in a Boolean context. The behaviour described there was a bug. Once recognised, it was fixed. There isn't any other reasonable interpretation of the expression for ‘if’: it's interpreted as a Boolean value. -- \ “The best mind-altering drug is truth.” —Jane Wagner, via Lily | `\ Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
