Eli a écrit : > Python treats integers as objects, but as I mentioned that I do care > about the value only, and not its object methods. I mean that it's not > possible to share objects among application in different programming > languages, but it's possible to share the scalar values among them.
Not so easily. Lower level languages have some strange rules about size of an integer, signed/unsigned stuff, precision issues for floats, etc... - and of course different representations for a 'string'. > Strings, booleans, integeres, floats, null are types that most > programming languages use. Arrays are also commonly used, but each > programming language defines and uses it differently, Same thing for strings. > so it's more > problematic to treat it as scalar (for example python uses dictionaries Python's dicts are hastables, not arrays. > while other langs uses regular arrays only). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
