[Python-Dev] For review: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:36:44 -0500

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

 GvR> For the first time, we'll have a standard way to cast an
 GvR> arbitrary value to a normalized truth value. Currently we
 GvR> write "not not x" for that. Now *that* is ugly.
That's a huge benefit I hadn't thought of. I use that idiom often
because it's a cheap substitute for the lack of a ?: statement. But
it does confound a lot of people!
-Barry