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Re: Canonical type nodes, or, comptypes considered harmful
> Like when int and long have the same range on a platform?
> The answer is they are different, even when they imply the same object
> representation.
>
> The notion of unified type nodes is closer to syntax than semantics.
I'm more than a little confused, then, as to what we are talking about
canonicalizing. We already have only one pointer to each type, for example.