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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] [CHICKEN 5] Change numerics representation
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felix . winkelmann |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] [CHICKEN 5] Change numerics representations |
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Tue, 09 Aug 2016 10:31:54 +0200 |
> All in all, I think these changes are worthwhile but for the caveat
> that it results in us having NO MORE reserved type tags left! In
> fact, the complete change is only possible because we dropped the
> SWIG pointer type; before that we only had two reserved types left.
> I don't see an easy way to reclaim type tags elsewhere; we don't have
> that many. Maybe (but only MAYBE) we could get rid of lambda info as
> a separate core type.
Maybe we can phase out the "tagged pointer" type? Having one reserved tag
left would be a good thing, IMHO.
felix