[Very Long (11K)] Numeric PEPs, first public posts

[Moshe Zadka]

On 19 Mar 2001, qrczak at knm.org.pl (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk) wrote:

> > A simpler way to solve this problem would be to standardize Python
> > ints as 32 bit.
> 
> I would definitely not do it (especially as 64-bit platforms will be
> more popular as the time goes). Relying on the size of a type called
> int is evil. Call a type/class int32 if you want to guarantee that
> it's exactly 32 bits.

I have to wonder how come people have not noticed my request to
*discuss it in the python-numerics sig*, which has a parallel discussion
to this one.
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