> That's the thread that Robert pointed you to, so you did read it. I guess > you were referring to Dag's proposal of a type based conversion syntax?
One could also refer to Robert's proposal of always converting using UTF-8 as having this problem. However it seemed like Robert didn't think it would be a problem because one could access UTF-8 buffers directly (but the documentation I find say they use UCS-2? Or does that change in Python 3? I don't know enough about this). Greg is right though - that thread didn't really settle; these are from Robert's last post, my stuff in quotes: ---- > Explicit is better than implicit This is a good point. It's a step backwards in terms of usability. Worth it? I'm unconvinced but outvoted. > > Pewh. I'll try to make this my last one [ie, last post in this thread], this should rest a bit :-) Same here. ---- So, it's on pause, and probably a CEP should be written for Stefan's no auto-conversion proposal and it should be voted for before this can be considered decided? That mailing list thread is a bit much to dive into and carries relatively little information, so that if this discussion picks up again it should be summed up and the concepts presented in isolation with higher signal-to-noise. Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
