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PEP 285: Adding a bool type

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sun Mar 31 01:48:40 EST 2002 
Peter Hansen wrote:

> Agreed on that point.  "bool" would be less clear to newcomers and
> possibly those with limited English.  (Vague assumption there that
> those people might have heard of Boolean algebra but might not
> link it to the shorter form as quickly.)
> 
> Besides, if we're doing this to look like the other languages,
> don't they use "boolean" more often?  (I realize that's not
> really the reason for doing this.)

C++ uses bool, C99 uses _Bool, Java uses boolean ...

I can see both ways here.  I'm more used to seeing bool, but wouldn't
object to boolean.

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