[Python-Dev] Tagged integers (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Jul 14 17:40:57 CEST 2004

I'd rather not like to see hackery like misused pointers in the core, so you can count me as -1 on this.

-1000 here. In a past life (the ABC implementation) we used this and it was a horrible experience. Basically, there were too many places where you had to make sure you didn't have an integer before dereferencing a pointer, and finding the omissions one core dump at a time was a nightmare.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list