Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:22:52 +1200
Lines: 10
Message-ID: <9142usF51iU2@mid.individual.net>
References: <4da9fb0b$0$13696$426a74cc@news.free.fr>	<mailman.442.1302987518.9059.python-list@python.org>	<87k4etho6e.fsf@benfinney.id.au>	<BANLkTim9ZipQL2CVyW18p1HTxt4vKb=R8g@mail.gmail.com>	<4DAB97FD.20103@ieee.org>	<BANLkTim5yohc6OYm9Lp67ponU6Y1LmGE6w@mail.gmail.com>	<nad-D1847B.21404817042011@news.gmane.org> <mailman.496.1303102402.9059.python-list@python.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net k4lvmgCt9k305bFwUjQUWQ7K7SuRtjo1e0S2m2GQq1KtS0/OcC
Cancel-Lock: sha1:UBws9U7P6Wpt+qyjMqvqAsM85rQ=
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <mailman.496.1303102402.9059.python-list@python.org>
Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:3512

Chris Angelico wrote:

> Remind me some day to finish work on my "ultimate programming
> language", which starts out with a clean slate and lets the programmer
> define his own operators and everything.

Didn't someone already do that and call it "lisp"? :-)

-- 
Greg