[Pyrex] Interpreting error messages

[Greg Ewing]

Edward C. Jones" <edcjones at erols.com>:

> >> /.../silly.pyx:5:8: Casting temporary Python object to non-Python type
> >> /.../silly.pyx:6:22: Cannot convert 'void (*)' to Python object
>
> Not very useful error messages. I would prefer the Python "undefined 
> global variable" error.

You would have got one of those at run time if you'd got that
far. It's just that other things happened to go wrong first.

I've been thinking about providing an option for requiring all
identifiers to be declared. Would you find that helpful?

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