[Pyrex] really wanting C++ support

[Matthias Baas]

At 15:55 07.05.2003 +1200, David McNab wrote:
>For a start, a '--cplusplus' or '-C' argument to pyrexc, which would
>cause a C++ file to get generated, with all exported functions (python
>entry points and user-declared public funcs) declared as 'extern C'.

...and use a C++ file extension for the output file (e.g. ".cpp" or ".cc" 
instead of ".c") if no name was provided by the user.

>Then, some limited support for C++ objects, whereby object and object
>pointer variables can be accessed, as well as their methods and
>attributes via the existing '.' syntax.

That's also what I would have suggested as a first step which would already 
be very useful.
It should also be possible to create and release instances with the new() 
and delete() operators.

Maybe the next step would then be to support C++ exceptions which should 
somehow be translated into corresponding Python exceptions. Namespaces is 
another thing that comes into mind, whereas I would give templates a rather 
low priority.

- Matthias -