[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fredrik> a quit/exit command that actually quits, instead of printing a > Fredrik> "you didn't say please!" message. > > I like Fredrik's idea more and more. Without my Unix bifocals it wouldn't > occur to me that Ctrl-D is the way to exit. Knowing Ctrl-Z is EOF on > Windows, it wouldn't occur to me that I'd also have to hit Return. Without > my Python shades I'd never guess to exit via "raise SystemExit". While the > raise command is "one true way", it certainly won't occur to newbies. I > have no idea how I'd exit from Pippy or from the interpreter prompt on a > Nokia phone without it. > > In short, I think it makes a lot of sense to support a bare "exit" and/or > "quit" as a completely intuitive platform-independent newbie-friendly way to > exit the interpreter.
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