Celelibi, AST modification is a rare use-case but when you need it, you _really_ need it (speaking from actual experience here)! Think something like ISPC. Cython already deals with the function AST. Your proposals will implicitly require rewriting the AST. Why not support it explicitly? It feels like a small change for a big win (admittedly in only a limited number of cases). As for debugging, that's up to the person who wrote the AST rewriting magic.
David, 1. I'm not sure why there would be any dependency on a C compiler in either mine or Celelibi's proposal. Could you please elaborate? At least in my proposal, we only ever go from Cython AST to Cython AST and use Python to do it. None of these things require a C compiler. 2. Again I can't speak for Celelibi but my proposal would be compile-time only. I'm happy to add restrictions (decorators on cdef functions only or maybe even special syntax) to ensure that this is the case. -- ________________________ Warm Regards Prakhar Goel _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
