On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn<da...@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote: > Thanks to chats with Kurt and Robert, I think I've managed to present my > thoughts from a different and more constructive angle. > > http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements/array > > There's some time constraints in the picture for various reasons (e.g. > Fortran GSoC development direction) so it would be great if this could > be resolved one way or the other before too long. Part of that will > likely happen on IRC. > > Feedback from anybody (especially users) very welcome.
Nice proposal. As mentioned in other comments, this would certainly give Cython a strong numerical aspect and would make those using Cython with numpy or external languages (ahem, Fortran ;-) quite happy, I think. The syntax seems to me nicely pythonic -- I have some small comments on the stuff inside the brackets, but it'll wait until (if and when) the proposal is accepted. As an aside -- the array syntax & semantics within Fortran are, IMHO, the one thing Fortran 90 got right and the main reason people *still* write programs in it today. The lack of a high-level array in C-derivative languages is quite a hurdle for those who want component-wise operations. Pulling into Cython something that has proven itself for a while now wouldn't be a bad thing. But that's from a numeric perspective, admittedly. Kurt _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list Cython-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
