Hi, On Nov 27, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Ian Bicking wrote: > There's some similar issues being considered for OLPC. > Specifically the > laptop has a "view source" key, which (unsurprisingly) lets you > view the > source of what you are doing. What that means is application (aka > "Activity") specific, but a general Python solution is called for. > > Of course it's a little hard to say what that actually should be. > Just > a text editor? Not too exciting. Really there should be a view of > the > process. And some way to manipulate the in-process objects and > source. > One thing I was unsure of -- and I think your postmortem > confirmed -- > is whether it's really feasible to generally edit objects in- > process in > a persistent way. I'm inclined not to go so far, perhaps simply > relying > on UI hints to indicate when the change is likely to be persistent. > It's fairly easy to edit a function definition persistently, for > instance, or add a function definition. You can still explore and > poke > around in the process any way you want, but you don't have complete > power.
Sounds a lot like a LISP Machine.... Have you looked into those for UI ideas? --- Rob Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages San Diego State University _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
