charris/numpy — comment on commit ce61621ed115a8bceb3aef270d45b345382f0c14
File: numpy/random/mtrand/mtrand.pyx line 139
By charris:

I may even have a contribution in it ;) At least someone who was working on C++0x talked about using my ziggurat code for generating random normals, but I don't know if anything ever came of it.

I think the NULL data pointer possibility needs to be carefully thought out and coordinated with the Cython folks, and maybe we should take a look at the numpy.i swig files also (scipy contains swig generated wrappers). The potential impact of this change could be enormous.