[Python-ideas] Do we need non-heap types any more? (Was: Implicit submodule imports)

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On Sun, Sep 28, 2014, at 22:58, Andrew Barnert wrote:
> And at any rate, consider the case we're talking about. We have some heap
> types and some non-heap types. Neither branch is very unlikely,

What? It is very unlikely, especially in existing code where it won't
work at all, for someone to attempt to reassign the __class__ of a non
heap type object. We are not talking about something that gets run on
every object.