Op 2005-08-22, Donn Cave schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Before leaving this topic, I wanted to make a rare visit > to the ruins of Google's USENET archive and pull out this > giant post on the subject of True and False, when they were > being considered for adoption into Python. There is some > stuff to ignore, where she addresses questions that didn't > go anywhere, but she goes on to write a well articulated > case that makes very interesting reading, and possibly has > had some effect on how people think about it around here. > > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/2de5e1c8384c0360
Well I guess she and I disagree here. I also don't understand some of her arguments. e.g. about code like: "if var == True" | Aaargh! | I already see too much code like this. It's mostly written by people | who come from other languages. They define their own True and False so | they can do this. I would argue that this would be bad code even in these other languages. Heck when I was still a student and getting a course in PASCAL, people with no programming experience whatsoever would write code like that and PASCAL does have a real BOOLEAN type. So where she gets the idea that "if var == True" is a symptom of a language that has no real BOOLEAN type (as python now has IHO) is beyond me. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
