Andrew Koenig <ark-mlist@att.net>
I think that int should be the base class, because I can imagine long supporting operations that int does not support, but not vice versa.
Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
Perhaps 'int' should be an abstract class, with concrete subclasses 'long' and 'short'.
MWH:
That's quite a nice idea -- a bit like an Objective C class cluster.
I've been pondering this one too. The only downside I can think of is that code that inherits from class int to add some method (e.g. a class hexint whose repr() and str() call hex() instead) will no longer inherit any implementation, and thus won't be very useful. Inheriting from short or long doesn't quite solve the problem either. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)