Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Aug 13 03:57:45 CEST 2004

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Guido:

> > if the only reason for it is to use isinstance?
> 
> So that an extension author *could* write an int-like type deriving
> from it?

But didn't you just say that people shouldn't be
deriving their own int-like types from baseinteger?

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