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this is a post from 16 years ago, and there might be someone who comes around with a solution that resolves his concerns (granted, I feel like it would be hard
by rtpg 6y ago
this is a post from 16 years ago, and there might be someone who comes around with a solution that resolves his concerns (granted, I feel like it would be hard to come up with a great solution in a language like C, having some ubiquitous unwrapping mechanism + better type checking would make this doable though....)
- pansa2 6y ago> this is a post from 16 years ago Sure, but the only opportunity to change this was along with the other breaking changes in Python 3.0, which is now 12 years old.
- KMag 6y agoIt might still be possible to change, by changing the macros that unwrap integers to support tagged integers, then waiting a decade or two before actually starting to use tagged integers. Things that hadn't been recompiled in a decade or two, but were for some reason running the latest interpreter would break. Presumably the number of breakages would be negligible.