[Python-Dev] Unifying Long Integers and Integers: baseint (original) (raw)

Dmitry Vasiliev lists at hlabs.spb.ru
Thu Aug 12 12:58:11 CEST 2004

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>> I think this would be a good idea; maybe the name should be >> baseinteger?

Michael> I would like to urge caution before making this change. Despite Michael> what the PEP may say, I actually think that creating a Michael> 'baseint' type is the WRONG design choice for the long term. I Michael> envision an eventual Python which has just one type, called Michael> 'int'. I agree. I made a suggestion that we consider the entire tree of numeric types,

Is it a good time to consider the entrie tree of ALL types then?

For example:

object (Tree of numeric types as suggested by Gareth) number complex real (Decimal) float rational fraction integer int bool long sequence buffer basestring str unicode list tuple mapping dict set frozenset file

but I had int/long unification in the back of my mind as well. I will take /F's suggestion and poke around the peps when I have some time, but I see no pressing reason a base integer class, however it's spelled, needs to be added for 2.4.

-- Dmitry Vasiliev (dima at hlabs.spb.ru) http://hlabs.spb.ru

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