is None or == None ?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:46:10 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2009-11-10, Rhodri James <rhodri at wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:45:31 -0000, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe the use of tagged pointers has been considered and so far
>>> rejected by the CPython developers. And no one else that I know of has
>>> developed a fork for that. It would seem more feasible with 64 bit
>>> pointers where there seem to be spare bits. But CPython will have to
>>> support 32 bit machines for several years.
>>
>> I've seen that mistake made twice (IBM 370 architecture (probably 360
>> too, I'm too young to have used it) and ARM2/ARM3).  I'd rather not see
>> it a third time, thank you.
> 
> MacOS applications made the same mistake on the 68K.  They reserved the
> high-end bits in a 32-bit pointer and used them to contain
> meta-information.


Obviously that was their mistake. They should have used the low-end bits 
for the metadata, instead of the more valuable high-end.


High-end-is-always-better-right?-ly y'rs,


-- 
Steven