On 02/20/2010 08:02 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
William Stein wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Tom Boothby
<tomas.boot...@gmail.com> wrote:
I vehemently oppose this.
-1
OK, I'm with you that this will not be on by default. As you suggest
below, this is something that can (and will) be made an optional mode.
I personally think the default should be to protect certain names, as
that will reduce the chances of new users getting in a mess.
More experienced uses can then elect to unprotect these variables.
I'm all for a special mode, but to do this by default would be backwards
incompatible and yet another incompatibility from Python.
Same here: +1 for special mode, -1 for making this default.
Maybe we could make a "New user" checkbox in the notebook like the
"Typeset" checkbox, which turns on protected mode, automatic variable
names, and implicit multiplication?
Jason
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