I remember somebdy implementing directly in Ipython at some Sage days
(there is a way to plug hooks as we do with the preparser). The hook
itself was very naive (just a while loop catching NameError in sage_eval).
I am not able to find any trace of it.
But +1 for the feature at IPython level.
On 13/03/2018 18:32, Erik Bray wrote:
Paul Zimmerman pointed out to me that there's a feature of the legacy
Sage Notebook, automatic_names() [1], which turns on automatic
creation of symbolic variables and functions when they are not already
defined. For example, by default if you enter:
sage: x + y + z
you get:
NameError: name 'y' is not defined
('y', in this case, because 'x' is pre-defined as a special case).
With automatic_names(True) it inserts a shim into the Sage syntax
pre-processor that automatically creates variables from names not
already found in globals().
I see no reason this feature needs to be confined to the legacy
Notebook, as opposed to being in Sage proper. Then that feature would
be usable at the command-line, as well as in the Jupyter Notebook.
Thoughts?
[1]
https://github.com/sagemath/sagenb/blob/e6910891f445e47690760966441328971d51a78d/sagenb/misc/support.py#L602
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