Josiah Carlson wrote: > Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Would you care to elaborate on the reasons behind the 'ick'? I'm a big fan >> of weave.inline and have used it very successfully for my own needs, so I'm >> genuinely curious (as I tend to teach its use, I like to know of potential >> problems I may not have seen). > > 1. Mixing multiple languages in a single source file is bad form, yet it > seems to be encouraged in weave.inline and other such packages (it > becomes a big deal when the handful of Python becomes 20+ lines of C). Agreed. I only use inline with explicit C strings for very short stuff, and typically use a little load_C_snippet() utility I wrote. That lets me keep the C sources in real C files, with proper syntax highlighting in Xemacs and whatnot. [... summary of weave problems] > Agreed. I admit that some of my issues would likely be lesser if I were > to start to use inline now, with additional experience with such things. > But with a few thousand lines of Pyrex and C working right now, I'm hard > pressed to convince anyone (including myself) that such a switch is > worthwhile. Thanks for your input. I certainly wasn't trying to suggest you change, I was just curious about your experiences. If you ever see this again, specific feedback on the scipy list would be very welcome. While I'm not 'officially' a scipy developer, I care enough about weave that occasionally I dig in and go in bugfixing expeditions. With proper bug reports we could improve a system which I think has a place (especially for scientific computing, with the Blitz support for arrays, which gives Numpy-like arrays in C++). I don't see weave as a competitor to pyrex, but rather as an alternate tool which can be excellent in certain contexts, and which I'd like to see improve whre possible. Regards, f _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
