On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:52 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recall discussions about this quite a few years ago, and the consensus was > to be careful what you wish for. Too many typos would then mysteriously > become variables. So (even though I certainly think it is a very useful > facility in many case) the potential for confusion was pretty great. I > think a nice use case of it is at the top of a worksheet prepared by an > instructor who is not a 100% novice. > > By the way, there was a similar method (perhaps the same one) that allowed > methods to be functions, e.g. you could do foo(x) instead of x.foo() for > simplicity. > > Anyway, certainly it should (in principle) be *implemented* for any Sage > interface, including Jupyter. I just don't know about it becoming the > default.
Certainly nobody's talking about turning it on by default--just that the feature exists, people do use it, and there's no reason it should be exclusive to the sage notebook. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
