gratuitous new features in 2.0
Aahz Maruch
aahz at netcom.com
Sat Aug 26 01:23:13 EDT 2000
[BTW, please attribute quotes correctly. Makes keeping track of things
easier.]
In article <FODp5.11949$Xg.114697 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Neil Hodgson <neilh at scintilla.org> wrote:
> attribution for Aahz restored:
>>
>> I'm going to repeat myself, just in case you didn't see my earlier post:
>>
>> There's something simple and magical about just doing
>>
>> >>> print 1+1
>> 2
>
> But surely that is not what you write? I, and even most beginners would
>say:
>
>>>> 1+1
>2
>
> The interactive interpreter is rightfully a special case.
Yes, but as soon as a person wants to write a "real" program, zie needs
to use print. I think the interactive interpreter should be taught with
that in mind.
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