Just trying and improve the state of the art.  Yea maybe we have to add
some tricks to separate the two grammar wise, so they can play together.
Besides, I didn't start with that complexity, it evolved into seeing if
that was a viable path forward.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Alex S. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Watching this thread for a long time now, and I must say I absolutely love
> how someone just barges in «oh just add parsing of C++ AST».
> C++ is a language with an extremely complex context-dependent grammar,
> much more so than C. Not to mention they took to updating the standard with
> new awesome features every 3 or 4  years, which all seem to absolutely need
> their own syntactic support.
> > 23 авг. 2016 г., в 8:03, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]>
> написал(а):
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> And it would be a step back
> >> for the nice auto-conversion facilities you care about, e.g.
> >>
> >>    py_func(c_func(py_value))
> >>
> >> would become
> >>
> >>    c_value = py_value
> >>    cdef some_type c_ret
> >>    inline_cpp "c_ret = c_func(c_value)"
> >>    py_func(c_ret)
> >>
> >> It's just choosing a smaller unit (line vs. file) to swap between
> languages.
> >
> > And on this note it would also encourage use of the Python/C API (over
> > swapping "back" to Python) which is often a dangerous step backwards.
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