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zephen • today at 6:04 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

Not sure why you're getting downvoted so much, but to put this thought into a somewhat broader context:

In an explicitly, statically typed language, bools might be useful as a standard small enum.

In what Python used to be, they weren't, not really.

But for whatever reason, declared typing is now an add-on to the language, and the people who like the verbosity of declared typing also, perhaps schizophrenically, like the terseness afforded by having a standard small enum.