[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Has this been considered before? Was there a reason to decide against it?

I think we simply didn't consider it. An early version of the PEP used
the lower bits for the pointer to encode the kind, in which case it even
stopped being a pointer. Modules are not expected to access this
pointer except through the macros, so it may not matter that much.

OTOH, it's certainly not too late to change it.

Regards,
Martin