Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:

> 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.
> 

Will this lead to better support of numpy slices?

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