Joachim Durchholz wrote: > > On a semantic level, the tag is always there - it's the type (and > definitely part of an axiomatic definition of the language). > Tag elimination is "just" an optimization.
I see what you're saying, but the distinction is a bit fine for me. If the language has no possible mechanism to observe the it-was-only-eliminated-as-an-optimization tag, in what sense is it "always there?" E.g. The 'C' programming language. Marshall -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list