On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Robert
Bradshaw<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There's been comparatively little debate about Kurt's project, so I'm
> not sure why this proposal was so much more controversial.
If I may elbow in here a bit:
The original proposal tossed around was CEP 401, that introduced
fortran-specific syntax ('module', 'fortran' etc) and the new array
syntax. It didn't get very far -- largely because the new fortran
keywords were perceived as feature creep and not in keeping with
Cython's philosophy. The proposal was improved to making an external
fortran wrapper tool and excluding fortran-specific syntax -- and I
genuinely think it was an improvement -- it keeps things nicely
modular and the wrapper tool can evolve independently. Ideally the
wrapper tool will get to the point of standing on its own feet. The
project needs some way to pass arrays from Cython to external code,
which is why it is tied up with the new array syntax, etc. As I
recall, the new buffer/array syntax discussion was postponed, and that
discussion has resulted in the current thread ;-)
Kurt
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