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The good news is that you already listed the two separate ideas. In C you need to have a single type which embodies both contradictory ideas, but that's actually a choice, albeit one it's far too late for C to change now.

The fact that choices you made in the past can't subsequently be changed is baggage. Even if you decide tomorrow that this was a waste of your time and you should never have worked on the provenance problem, you can't have that time back. [that's an example of personal baggage, in the case of C the early choice to only have the single type for both purposes is the baggage]



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