On Jan 8, 2008 11:26 PM, David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles R Harris wrote: > > > > > <snip>
> > > The C++ name mangling can be worked around. > name mangling is just the top of the iceberg. There are problems wrt to > static initialization, exception, etc...; ABI compatibility is much > easier to break in C++ than in C. And then, there is the problem of C++ > ability of compilers. One would naturally have to be very careful about which features to use. In particular, don't use anything that throws, and I suppose one would want to avoid having to link to the stdc++ library also. I don't know if that is possible. <snip> > I agree on this point (custom code generators use). Note that there are > standard tools to generate simple templates in C (autogen). Unfortunately, autogen is GPL and I suspect NumPy would be regarded as a derived work. Are you familiar with any other standard, maintained program of that sort with a BSD style license? > If what you want to do is to be able to use simple templates (by simple, > I mean template function parametrized with the numerical type), C++ is > overkill IMHO. > Chuck
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