2010/7/20 Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> > > On Jul 20, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Laurent PETIT wrote: > > > Oh, maybe I understand: by "partial drafts", you mean "pseudo-code", > directly written in clojure, is it this ? > > > > If there was a shortcut key to quickly wrap/unwrap a top level defn with > (comment), and if the keyboard shortcut for "evaluate top level form in the > REPL" would be smart enough to detect top level comment and send to the REPL > the unwrapped form, would it help you ? > > That way, your files would visually show the "pseudo-code" parts (those > within comments), and your namespaces will remain in a loadable shape, > eventually relieving you from manually load your project "piece by piece" > every time you must restart a REPL ? > > Laurent, > > This strikes me as an instance (somewhat like structure-based editing :-0) > in which you are being admirably clever, but in which simplicity and clarity > and obviousness can be more helpful than even very clever cleverness. > > I can't speak for Johannes but sometimes my broken stuff is pseudocode, > sometimes it's just incomplete, sometimes it's English or abbreviations, > etc. Sometimes I plan to come back to it in a minute before evaluating it > (but I may want to save in the meantime anyway), while sometimes I may want > to evaluate it even if I know it's broken because I want to see how the > system thinks it's broken in particular. > > All of this works fine as long as the system evaluates what I tell it to > evaluate and leaves it alone otherwise. Automatic evaluation disrupts this > and adding more complexity to locally disable the automatic evaluation in > some cases, and then even more complexity to get the system TO evaluate that > stuff anyway (even if it's marked as a comment!) when the user says to > evaluate the file, is just making things that could be simple and clear and > obvious really confusing. > > Of course you're right, the brainstorming is not over :-)
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