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On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 11:02:48 AM UTC-4, Norman Worth wrote:
> You should not use tagged types where they are not needed.  It messes up=
=20
> the code.  In general, if you are not going to have derived types, the=20
> base type should not be tagged. =20

In some cases you do not have a choice; this is why I started this thread i=
n the first place. If you want to define custom indexing, custom iteration =
or use the object.method() syntax, you must use tagged types, regardless of=
 whether or not you really need tagged types. It seems odd to me that you m=
ust pay an unnecessary cost to use these features just because the language=
 says so (perhaps there is a reason behind the decision, but I can't see wh=
y), even if that cost is small.