Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Aug 4, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > >> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >> >>> I don't think the [] syntax buys anything above a regular >>> pointer notation? If so, removing support for int[]-notation >>> altogether >>> would get rid of the issue and lead to a cleaner grammar. >> The current declaration syntax has the advantage that it's >> the same as in C, so people familiar with C don't have to >> learn anything new. This would be a step away from that, >> although a fairly minor one. >> >> Another consideration is how much existing code it would >> break, which could be quite a lot. > > +1 > > Also, c_type[] vs. object_type[] are easily discerned, and they both > have similar (high level) meaning.
Well, there is an assymetry. If you did cdef int[handler=ndarray, ndim=2] or cdef int[ndarray, 2] you would be more correct. Hey...Perhaps that is not such a bad idea? Putting the dtype on the outside and the container type on the inside? This would mimic C in some way. One could have cdef int[ndim=2, mode='full'] would be an int buffer on an object. And cdef int[len=44, mode='native'] would mean the C int[44]... Just brainstorming though. -- Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
