On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Lee Ann Rucker <lruc...@vmware.com> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: >> >> * except for a subset of NSNumbers which the runtime cleverly hides inside >> tagged pointers, a C++-like trick > > Smalltalk did it first.
Lisp probably did it before that. -- Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com