[Cython] [Fwd: Re: Surprise: A bool isn't a bool]

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Surprise: A bool isn't a bool
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:26:58 +0200
> From: Bjarke Roune <bjarke at daimi.au.dk>
> To: Dag Sverre Seljebotn <dagss at student.matnat.uio.no>
> References: <mailman.42053.1246289710.27370.cython-dev at codespeak.net>
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>
>> Indeed. The question is whether it is possible to find such a way.  
>> Perhaps
>> disallow "bool" in cdef extern functions? Although that would add an
>> unecesarry typecheck if a C library in fact did return a Python  
>> boolean
>> object... (like many C functions in Python's standard library might).
>>
> Perhaps let there be a switch to turn the error or warning off, and
> some kind of instruction in a Cython file that turns it off for only
> that file.

Actually, I'm not really sure why we have that as a builtin type at  
all--it doesn't really do any good and leads to confusion (especially  
if we introduce a real bool type later).

- Robert