Done. On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Hi Robert, > > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> Currently, in Cython, when x is a python object, <int>x gives the >> address of x. This is counter-intuitive and rarely useful. (When it >> is, one can always do <size_t><void *>x). >> >> I would propose making <type>x do a conversion (the same as cdef type >> y = x would) whenever type is a non-object type and x isn't, or vica- >> versa. Between C types it already behaves this way, and between >> Python objects it already has special meaning. > > +1 > > The first thing I tried when I hit the bool expr problem, was changing > > if n is None or n == 0: > > into > > if n is None or <bint>(n == 0): > > which did not quite give the expected result. > > >> I would also propose something like >> >> <ExtensionType?>x to be a cast into type ExtensionType *with* type >> checking. > > I think that's also a good idea. > > BTW, we shouldn't forget to document syntax extensions in the wiki, > so that > people (including Greg) know what works. > > Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
