Prothon vs. Python integers

Mark Hahn mark at prothon.org
Tue May 25 14:23:44 EDT 2004


"Jacek Generowicz" <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote in message
news:tyfd64tlzqr.fsf at pcepsft001.cern.ch...
> "Mark Hahn" <mark at prothon.org> writes:
>
> > Longs seemed like a needless exotic kludge to me in the 64-bit world.
Surely
> > once you get to 3.7e19 you are in floating point territory. I can't
imagine
> > counting anything up to 10**19.
>
> Aaaargh !
>
> Please don't do this. Please don't make language design decisions on
> the basis of your lack of imagination. It's a very good way of
> designing a crap language.

I said yesterday noon in this same thread I was wrong and was implementing
longs.  Please give me a break.





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