Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > With applications languages, as earlier mentioned, none of this should > be necessary. Sacrifice the performance and have arbitrary-precision > integers, Unicode strings, garbage collection, and first-class > lists/functions/mappings etc. This is only about lower-level > languages.
While Unicode is great, modulo arithmetics is much closer to my heart than Unicode -- as an application programmer. Only today I released a product feature that actively exploits the wrapping semantics. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list