Prothon vs. Python integers

Jacek Generowicz jacek.generowicz at cern.ch
Tue May 25 03:42:04 EDT 2004


"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.



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