Nathan Gray n8gray at caltech.edu.is.my.e-mail.address
Tue Feb 20 22:49:05 EST 2001

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Christoph Horst wrote:

> Nathaniel Gray <n8gray at caltech.edu.is.my.email.address> wrote:
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>> IMHO it's not worth adding "!", but if "?" doesn't break anything then it's 
>> a net gain.  I assert that it _would_ make Python more expressive to add an 
>> elegant way of indicating that a function returns only boolean values.
> 
> 
> What's wrong with prefixing the function name with 'is'?

Nothing.  I just find it pleasingly clear to read languages where 
predicates end with '?'.  It's simple and elegant.

Like I said, though, I'd be very surprised if this proposal ends up 
being accepted.

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