int/long unification hides bugs

[Jeff Epler]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:47:35AM -0700, Josiah Carlson wrote:
> class BoundedInt(object):
>     a = [0]
>     def f(a):
>         a[0] = 1
>         return 1
>     assert f(a)
>     if a[0]:
>         def __new__(cls, val, lower, upper):
>             #body for creating new bounded int object...
>             #only gets called if Python _is not run_ with -O option.
>     else:
>         def __new__(cls, val, lower, upper):
>             #optimized version is a plain integer
>             return val
>     del f;del a #clean out the namespace
>     #insert code for handling bounded integer arithmetic here

Is there a reason you didn't use 'if __debug__' here?

    class BoundedInt(object):
        ...
        if __debug__:
            def __new__ ...
        else:
            def __new__ ...

Jeff
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