Hoyt Koepke wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>>> Before the C++ syntax sticks
>> I actually think it makes sense. In declarations, the parameter can appear
>> only behind type names, so parsing them would be trivial - except for
>> cases where the type name appears in an expression:
>>
>>    isinstance(x, MyType<int>)
>>    type_ref = MyType<int>  vs.  type_ref = SomeValue < something > 5
>>
>> Not sure if
>>
>>    type_ref = MyType[int]
>>
>> makes this any simpler - it may at least simplify the parser, although
>> there might be further ambiguities with buffers, array sizes and indexing.
> 
> One other thing that you all might want to consider is D's syntax for
> templates (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/templates-revisited.html).
>  As much as I am familiar with C++ template stuff, I think it is much
> better thought out than C++.  I know it's completely tangential to
> python/C, but might be worth considering.

Hmm, the '!' might make sense in the D (and maybe C) corner, but for Python
and Cython?

Stefan

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