Reported by cb on 19 Jul 2008 15:43 UTC
I tried to post this to cython-dev twice and got one awaiting
moderator approval and one silent no-op. So, I'll try it here.
It would be nice to have conditional compilation
directives that make multiple inclusion idempotent.
The usual guards in the C/C++ world would be:
#ifndef FOO_H
#define FOO_H
...
#endif
In Cython, I have been doing
DEF FOO_1 = 1
DEF FOO_2 = 1
IF FOO_1 == FOO_2:
DEF FOO_2 = 2
...
That seems kind of ugly, though. Beyond aesthetics,
it is probably nice in other contexts besides include
idempotency to test for a name before using it.
So, I propose a tiny addition to add a new compile-
time builtin called DEFINED() that just evaluates
to a boolean based on whether its string argument
exists in the compile-time environment.
This allows the above construct to be written both
more simply and more clearly:
IF not DEFINED("FOO"):
DEF FOO = 1
...
Name choice follows the principle of least surprise
since the lowercase cpp name has similar functionality,
just like the other conditional compilation features.
Here is a very simple patch that implements this,
attached as well.
Reported by cb on 19 Jul 2008 15:43 UTC I tried to post this to cython-dev twice and got one awaiting moderator approval and one silent no-op. So, I'll try it here.
It would be nice to have conditional compilation directives that make multiple inclusion idempotent. The usual guards in the C/C++ world would be:
In Cython, I have been doing DEF FOO_1 = 1 DEF FOO_2 = 1 IF FOO_1 == FOO_2: DEF FOO_2 = 2 ...
That seems kind of ugly, though. Beyond aesthetics, it is probably nice in other contexts besides include idempotency to test for a name before using it.
So, I propose a tiny addition to add a new compile- time builtin called DEFINED() that just evaluates to a boolean based on whether its string argument exists in the compile-time environment.
This allows the above construct to be written both more simply and more clearly:
Name choice follows the principle of least surprise since the lowercase cpp name has similar functionality, just like the other conditional compilation features.
Here is a very simple patch that implements this, attached as well.
diff -ruw Cython-0.9.8.orig/Cython/Compiler/Scanning.py Cython-0.9.8/Cython/Compiler/Scanning.py --- Cython-0.9.8.orig/Cython/Compiler/Scanning.py 2008-06-11 14:25:34.000000000 -0400 +++ Cython-0.9.8/Cython/Compiler/Scanning.py 2008-07-17 16:39:27.691882798 -0400 @@ -186,6 +186,9 @@ else: raise
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Migrated-From: http://trac.cython.org/ticket/27