I recognized typeof in a recent commit by Robert. Is this a new feature in 0.13 or has it been in for some time?
If it is new: What I'm wondering is whether typeof should perhaps, in the spirit of Python, return a descriptive object instead of a string. (It could even return a ctypes object describing the type, if that is powerful enough for us). In particular, it should be possible to do introspection about structs and so on, so that it is easy to build serializers etc. using "typeof" information. (Buffers already put some RTTI about structs to the C file BTW, in order to parse buffer format strings.) This is thinking long-term; but I'm wondering whether the current typeof should be renamed e.g. "nameoftype", in order to maintain backwards compatability if or when somebody decides to make a more powerful typeof. Thoughts? Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
