Robert Bradshaw, 01.12.2009 08:41:
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Robert Bradshaw, 01.12.2009 04:09:
>>> This is completely orthogonal to type inference.
>> It's not orthogonal, as type inference currently breaks C type to 
>> untyped Python name assignments, which is exactly the case you want to
>> influence with the directive. This means that the char* directive
>> would override the type inference directive for one special case.
> 
> I was just using assignment to an untyped variable as an implicit  
> coercion to object in my example. I should have been more explicit and  
> written
> 
>      cdef char* ss = ...
>      cdef object x = ss

In which case you could just as well type x as str, or use an explicit cast
to the type you want. When enabling type inference, the 'default behaviour'
no longer comes for free, except for exactly the function call boundary
cases that I keep stressing.

Stefan

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