Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Dag Sverre Seljebotn, 26.10.2009 19:59:
>>   a) Me and Kurt decided to use the name "memoryview" everywhere in the 
>> code written in summer. The essential feature of the proposed Cython 
>> type described in enhancements/array is a) a view to a reference-counted 
>> PEP 3118 buffer, b) slices returns new sub-views. This is exactly what 
>> the Python memoryview type does. Cython adds static typing to this, but 
>> we decided to also name the Cython concept memoryview.
> 
> Is it just the "concept", or also the type itself?
> 
> I just want to make sure people can
> 
>       cdef memoryview m
> 
> to use the Python memoryview type without having it fail or do something
> unexpected, just like they use
> 
>       cdef list l

Sure, that will still work (if memoryview is added as a builtin type), 
we don't plan to interfer at all there.

-- 
Dag Sverre
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