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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:12:26 +1100
Subject: Re: Can global variable be passed into Python function?
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> As for Python, there's nothing in the Python specification that would
> prevent you from having, say, 63-bit integers as representing
> themselves. IOW, you could physically place such integers as themselves
> as the reference and the number would not physically exist elsewhere.

What would id(5) be? Some constant? What would id(id([])) be?

ChrisA