Hi Geo,

> I think you mean 0xF000 for everything? This is indeed cool! but hmm does
> it limit the memory for each data type?

Yes, what Guido writes is nonsense. Fixed-sized address spaces are a terrible
solution. Doesn't scale, and is extremely inefficient due to the necessary
pointer range checks.

PicoLisp's way is far superior, because the tag bits come "free", they are
implicit by the natural pointer alignments.

☺/ A!ex

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