[Cython] #303 + simplifying type system

[Robert Bradshaw]

On May 14, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:

> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>>
>> For (B), I believe that if the type is an external typedef, a
>> transform should change the "cdef publid footype value" to this:
>>
>> cdef class A:
>>    property value:
>>       def __get__(self): return self.value
>>       def __set__(self, footype x) : self.value = x
>>
>> In short, I already have implemented the utility code for (A), but  
>> I'm
>> in doubt about how to reimplement CTypedefNode. Additionally, I
>> believe my appoach for (B) could be easily implemented (likely Dag  
>> can
>> implement this part far better than me).
>
> Splendid! This was basically already implemented (by Robert I  
> think) to
> support "cdef public MyCdefClass foo",

Yep.

> so the patch was really easy.
>
> http://hg.cython.org/cython-devel/rev/dcc78ab6a498

Does this have a performance impact compared to the other way? It  
does bloat the code some. (Maybe it's not critical anyways.)

- Robert