Re: [RFC] Better type names for int64 RFC
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:29:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Better type names for int64 RFC | ||
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On 23 Aug 2014, at 20:19, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a quick question for the people debating this issue: Aside from the
> dispute over whether or not it's necessary / unimportant, are there any
> pressing reasons *not* to implement the changes that Pierre is advocating?
> I.e. would it break anything, waste a large amount of time, make the code
> harder to maintain, etc? Or is it just that you don't think it's worth
> doing?
I can think of two:
1. It breaks most extensions out there, perhaps unnecessarily.
2. If bigints are implemented, we’d have to rename everything again.
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Andrea Faulds
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