[Python-Dev] Int FutureWarnings and other 2.4 TODOs
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Dec 2 18:32:17 EST 2003
Andrew Koenig <ark-mlist at 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.
Perhaps 'int' should be an abstract class, with concrete
subclasses 'long' and 'short'.
And 'bool' would fit into this family as a sort of
"extremely short int".
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