[pypy-dev] Builtin types

[Christian Tismer]

Christian Tismer wrote:
...

A small addition:
>> I'm not really understanding what you're proposing here.
> 
> 
> I am trying to extend the new-style classes
> that includes ctypes, somehow.
> 
>> You could look at ctypes as implementing 'typed slots' with
>> C-compatible layout.
...

>> This is maybe also something that ctypes already does.
>> The B *class* above knows all about this C structure
>>
>> struct B {
>>     char x;
>>     int y;
>>     long long z;
>> };

Ok, what I was thinking of was to use ctypes
or something similar to describe structs,
and then to build all objects on top of this.
This means that details like type pointer and
reference counts go into this definiton as
well, together with their behavior, and we
are able to try different approaches as well.

Probably this idea is trivial, and you though
this way all the time.

ciao - chris
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