Rhodri James wrote: > > Could you elucidate a bit? I'm not seeing how you're intending to keep > PEP-8 conventions in this, and I'm not entirely convinced that without > them the smart editor approach doesn't in fact reduce your productivity. >
thank you for asking for an elaboration. Programming by voice has one goal. enable a disabled person such as myself to create code by voice with a minimum of vocal or hand damage. let's use an example. Admittedly, this is a very simple example but hopefully it illustrates my point What I dictate is: from pots is class telephone What should generate is: class Telephone (pots): as you can see, taken from the simplistic expression, we generate the right pep-8 convention. (I think). This is not the only grammar one can use but, it's one that comes to mind that doesn't have a lot of dead ends. So if I was dictating code, it would look something like: >From pots is new class telephone new constructor first argument last mile = between quotes copper Second argument fiber delivery date = between quotes when hell freezes over" jump to body first argument to self second argument to self new method construction crew . . . Telephone fieldwork = telephone second argument fiber delivery date = between quotes hell froze over recycled coffee = telephone fieldwork construction crew ----------------- This is the rough example of what I think should be spoken and what can be translated to code. What isn't shown is disambiguation techniques. For example, when a name is said, if it is not unique to the context, then a small pop-up shows the ambiguities and lets the user choose. Yes your focus shifts rapidly but you're in the groove of writing code and it's just making your choices explicit. For example, if telephone wasn't unique because we had telephone pole and telephone truck as classes elsewhere in the namespace, you would see a pop-up with each name with a number next to it. You could either click on the item or say a digit to reinforce the choice. If the class had more methods, when I say "telephone fieldwork" that gets translated into knowledge of what class it's an instance of and all the choices are displayed but at the same time, the natural language form are shoved into the grammar so you can continue speaking. If you speak quickly enough, you will see no choice but the grammar will still be loaded up so that you will get the right thing. at each stage of the way, names get transformed into the pep-8 form without me having to say anything special. The environment knows what form it wants and does the transformation automatically. I'm surprised people aren't doing this already for their handcrafted code. It's one less bit of detail you need to pay attention to. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
