heh good point. ignore that thought. python is a signed language. :)
On 8/25/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I look at it from another POV -- does anyone care about not being able > to represent dimensionalities over 2 billion? I don't see the > advantage of saying unsigned int here; it just means that we'll get > more compiler warnings in code that is otherwise fine. After all, the > previous line says 'int readonly' -- I'm sure that's meant to be a > bool as well. Hey, Python sequences use Py_ssize_t to express their > length, and I've never seen a string with a negative length either. > :-) > > I could even see code computing the difference between two dimensions > and checking if it is negative; don't some compilers actively work > against making such code work correctly? > > --Guido > > On 8/25/07, Gregory P. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone mind if I do this? > > > > --- Include/object.h (revision 57412) > > +++ Include/object.h (working copy) > > @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ > > Py_ssize_t itemsize; /* This is Py_ssize_t so it can be > > pointed to by strides in simple case.*/ > > int readonly; > > - int ndim; > > + unsigned int ndim; > > char *format; > > Py_ssize_t *shape; > > Py_ssize_t *strides; > > > > > > PEP 3118 and all reality as I know it says ndim must be >= 0 so it > > makes sense to me. > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-3000 mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > > Unsubscribe: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
