[Python-Dev] "result type only depends on operand types"...?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Channeling Guido: this isn't an "exception", this is a phased step in
> the progress toward unifying ints and longs.

You say it so much better than I could. :-)

> Eventually, the distinction will go away except for explicitly
> declared platform ints, and an overflow error on a platform int will
> once again raise an exception rather than transforming
> automatically.

Um, what's a platform int?  Unless you're talking about a NumPy
feature?

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