doc: explain monomorphism of user-defined classes.

Fixes #523.
m-labs · Aug 3, 2016 · 3dc0101 · 3dc0101
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@@ -12,10 +12,13 @@ A number of Python features can be used inside a kernel for compilation and exec
 * 32-bit signed integers (default size)
 * 64-bit signed integers (use ``int(n, width=64)`` to convert)
 * Double-precision floating point numbers
-* Lists of the above types.
+* Lists of any supported types
+* User-defined classes, with attributes of any supported types (attributes that are not used anywhere in the kernel are ignored)
 
 For a demonstration of some of these features, see the ``mandelbrot.py`` example.
 
+When several instances of a user-defined class are referenced from the same kernel, every attribute must have the same type in every instance of the class.
+
 Remote procedure calls
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