So a fun story about how interning numbers can go wrong: When compiling the apple's ui designs from the xml based xib to a binary nib, their compiler uses lots

So a fun story about how interning numbers can go wrong: When compiling the apple's ui designs from the xml based xib to a binary nib, their compiler uses lots of interning. It's pretty cool for avoiding 20 copies of an empty string for example. But then they messed up and did the same thing with numbers while ignoring the type... Which means if you have a value 5.0 as a size somewhere, then your sequentially assigned ids will be: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.0, 6,...