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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Aug 12 00:03:59 CEST 2004 

>> 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, 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.

Skip

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