Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
"S Arrowsmith" <si...intbox.UUCP> wrote:
"Small" integers get a similar treatment:
a = 256
b = 256
a is b
True
a = 257
b = 257
a is b
False
This is weird - I would have thought that the limit
of "small" would be at 255 - the biggest number to
fit in a byte. 256 takes two bytes, so it must be
an arbitrary limit - could have been set at 300,
or 30 000...
'Small' also goes to -10 or so. 256 was included, at minuscule cost,
because it is a relatively common number, being the number of bytes.
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