OTOH I think a higher level of abstraction is necessary to targert more general backends.
I agree with Samuele that we should not focus on ctypes or any other kind of structs right now. For all of ctypes' power I believe that it is not central to Python-in-Python. This will become important later, when we target C.
So you're suggesting backends besides C? That's a good idea since it would allow us to in fact build a backend in C# which I brought up as a joke earlier (no one seemed to have noticed the j/k) but which might not be such a bad idea. A java backend would even be possible. If most of the code is Python anyways and a minimal amount is needed in another language to get things running then there is huge potential to target other platforms, etc. It would even aid PPC/OS X support which is something I greatly desire. -- Nathan Heagy phone:306.653.4747 fax:306.653.4774 http://www.zu.com