> > I was thinking of something along the lines of > > cdef extern from ...: > cpp_string to_string[T](T value) > T my_func[T, S](T a, S b) > ... > > It's more a question of how to implement it. > > - Robert
Well this closely matches the syntax used for classes and won't require any type inference, since the user supplies the type at the call site (am I reading that correctly?) so I'm not sure what about it will be particularly challenging. If it's done this way the compiler could generate prototypes as necessary in a preprocessing step, without inferring anything about the types until later when overloading is resolved. That feels kind of hacky to me, but I've never written a compiler with the size and scope of Cython, maybe it's not too bad. This is essentially what the user has to do already, and it "works". The biggest complaint I have about this method is that without inference it looks like it could lead to a *lot* of extra writing out of types. I'm dreading the thought of writing out nested template types when calling factory functions like those in the thrust library, which was what motivated this in the first place. -John _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
