[IPython-dev] Multiple outputs per input line

[Robert Kern]

On 3/14/11 12:01 PM, Brian Granger wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> I think that would get quite difficult.  Mathematica's notion of
>>> output is very specific and concrete (they basically trigger a
>>> displayhook on every assignment).  Our notion of "output" now is very
>>> dynamic - especially when you mix multiple frontends into the picture.
>>>
>>
>> Remember, we're talking here about the outputs that get produced by
>> the displayhook, for those we do have numbers we can track (because
>> they stem from sys.displayhook firing).  You're completely correct
>> that we can't number display side effects, like print statements or
>> any of the products of the new display system.  But the return value
>> of computations, which is what Out[N] contains, we can track.
>
> I am a bit confused then.  I thought we had removed the possibility
> for displayhook to be called more than once per input.  I seem to
> remember that you removed that when you were working on the input
> splitter and execution logic last summer.  What am I missing.  I do
> agree that it is a bit different if we are only talking about the
> displayhook part of the logic.

Well, if you removed it, it's back. Try it.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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