[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project (original) (raw)
"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 23 15:17:46 CEST 2011
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Has this been considered before? Was there a reason to decide against it?
I think we simply didn't consider it. An early version of the PEP used the lower bits for the pointer to encode the kind, in which case it even stopped being a pointer. Modules are not expected to access this pointer except through the macros, so it may not matter that much.
OTOH, it's certainly not too late to change it.
Regards, Martin
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