On 02/08/2019 06:26, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
It is massively more discoverable, for one simple reason:
autocomplete.
In teaching people to program, I often use Jupyter notebook, which
has great autocomplete functionality that can also bring up the
documentation on any function. You can type itertools.[TAB] and get a
list, and then you can scroll down the list looking for a likely
function, and when you get to it you can hit Shift-Tab and see the
documentation. Certainly other IDEs have similar functionality.
This is a colossal win over having to go the documentation and look
through the text for a recipe that is not "addressable" in any way. You
can't even link to it, for heaven's sake! The function docs in all the
modules have permalinks but the recipes are just unstructured text.
I'd have to challenge that "colossal win". I am very uncomfortable with
IDEs that try to do my thinking for me, and I start turning things off
on those occasions when I am forced to use them. It would even occur to
me to try autocompletion. Reading the documentation is so much easier,
and far more likely to point me at what the right answer actually is,
rather than just what I think it might be.
--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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