On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev <novos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 12 December 2014 14:35:40 UTC-7, kcrisman wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone have arguments to keep stripping?
>>>
>>
>> Just for reference, the usual argument is that one wants full
>> compatibility with the command line (which we don't currently have,
>> however). E.g.
>>
>> sage: a = 4
>> sage: a+a
>> 8
>>
>> while with no stripping,
>>
>> {{{
>> a = 4
>> a+a
>> }}}
>> some kind of syntax error, I guess?
>>
>
> While compatibility is great, it is better when it is achieved by following
> some sensible guidelines/standards. If wrong code like the first one is
> working fine in one place, it is not exactly a good reason to make it work
> in another. "Indentation is very important, but we will let you be sloppy
> anyway." is not a good approach, in my opinion.
You could make the same argument against allowing
sage: 2+2
or
>>> 2+2
as input. They are "wrong code" to Python.
Anyway, think of the children.
> Also, the notebook analog of
> those two commands should be TWO cells, not one, and I have no problems
> stripping a blank rectangle in front of the code.
It's completely reasonable to assign a variable and do a calculation
with it in the same cell.
William
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