On Friday, February 23, 2018 at 10:41:45 AM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...] > There are dozens of languages that have made the design > choice to limit their default integers to 16- 32- or 64-bit > fixed size, and let the user worry about overflow. Bart, > why does it upset you so that Python made a different > choice?
A default "integer-diversity-and-inclusivity-doctrine" is all fine and dandy by me, (Hey, even integers need safe spaces), but i do wish we pythonistas had a method to turn off this (and other) cycle burning "features" -- you know -- in the 99.99999 percent of time that we don't need them. And BTW... Am i the *ONLY* person here who feels that Python optimizations should be more than merely the tossing of dead weight overboard? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list