Yes, I would propose so.
I don’t know how to reply to two posts at the same time in this forum, but in response to Peter Suter’s post:
That’s too bad! Since it was rejected 15 years ago, perhaps it’s time to reconsider. To be perfectly honest, I am nowhere near sufficiently qualified to make an educated argument defending how its merits would compare to the onus of the necessary changes.
What I can say, though, is that the refactoring approaches that I found people suggesting to get around such cases seem to me infinitely clumsier than the simple addition of an integer. So clumsy, in fact, that it seemed to me very anti-pythonic, which is why I thought I might suggest this here.
Anyway, hopefully this will encourage more competent people than I to talk about it and, hopefully, implement it.