[IPython-dev] what goes wrong with %%file

[Greg Wilson]

On 2013-05-13 11:09 AM, Carl Smith wrote:
> I always think of pushing data from memory to storage as flushing it. 
> I don't remember where I picked that term up from, but I guess it's 
> less commonplace than I thought.
It's a common term among programmers (partly, I think, because 'fflush' 
has been part of the C standard library for more than 40 years), but 
it's not one that most non-programmers would recognize. That's why I'd 
like to try a lightweight name recognition/expectation check on users 
before finalizing new names...
Thx,
G