On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Hi, > > Lisandro Dalcin wrote: >> changeset: 1333:34aca76e1b9d >> summary: array size must be set as int, not numeric string >> >> broke mpi4py and petsc4py, where I use stack-allocated arrays where >> the size comes from an (external) enumeration, for example: >> >> cdef char name[MPI_MAX_OBJECT_NAME+1] > > Sorry for that. The problem is that we don't currently have a way > to say "give > me the compile-time result for this subtree, but don't complain if > it's a > runtime value". I already needed that in a couple of places when > working on > Cython, as it can lead to different code when you know the result > of an > expression. I just never got around to implement this. > > I think it's wrong that compile_time_value() raises a compiler > error. It > should rather return the result with a hint if it was determined > completely or > if part of it is runtime-determined. Then the caller can decide > what to do > with this information.
This has annoyed me too. http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/119 - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
