> *interactive* use becomes fundamentally different than *non interactive*
use.
You could read all in non interactive mode and keep the empty line rule.
Would they diverge in that case?
On Jul 19, 2012 6:24 PM, "David A. Wheeler" <dwhee...@dwheeler.com> wrote:
> Kartik Agaram:
> > One option -- in case y'all haven't already considered it -- is to
> > perform non-interactive translation using a read-all, rather than
> > read. Wart did this for a long time.
>
> That's certainly possible, and it would also allow blank lines to NOT
> terminate expressions in files.
>
> The problem is that this means that *interactive* use becomes
> fundamentally different than *interactive* use. That becomes a trap; you
> can no longer usefully cut-and-paste code from a file into an interactive
> REPL, for example. It's also confusing.
>
> So I think the current rule ("initial indent disables indenting") has the
> best trade-off.
>
> --- David A. Wheeler
>
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