Hi Jean-Paul, On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:22 PM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > I don't think it's true that using strings instead of types (or other rich > objects) simplifies anything. Quite the opposite, it takes all of the > complexity which must exist and throws a huge wall up to prevent anyone from > understanding it without undertaking a huge amount of extra work.
While I generally agree with this, I have doubts about this particular case. It seems to me that building normal Python objects to represent C types has mostly the effect of multiplying verbosity in the source by a factor of 3, and requiring the programmer to learn details about the new classes; and with very little gains because C types are, by definition, supposed to be used only in declarations and rarely in actual code (apart from C casts). I fear that down this path lies precisely ctypes. A bientôt, Armin. _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
