On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 10:31:54AM +0200, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote:
> > All in all, I think these changes are worthwhile but for the caveat
> > that it results in us having NO MORE reserved type tags left!  In
> > fact, the complete change is only possible because we dropped the
> > SWIG pointer type; before that we only had two reserved types left.
> > I don't see an easy way to reclaim type tags elsewhere; we don't have
> > that many.  Maybe (but only MAYBE) we could get rid of lambda info as
> > a separate core type.
> 
> Maybe we can phase out the "tagged pointer" type? Having one reserved tag
> left would be a good thing, IMHO.

I think we agree that one of the pointer types can go.  I would like to
re-focus on the patch(es) at hand.  We can discuss the pointer changes
further in a different thread, and/or at the summer meeting.

Cheers,
Peter

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