Hi Abigail,

* Abigail <[email protected]> [2008-06-10 07:25]:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:33:21AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > considering he does NOT want to write code here, but he wants
> > to stop, quit, exit, or whatever, it is completely
> > unreasonable to require the parens. Very valid hate indeed.
> 
> But he is writing code. Interactive Python is like perls 'while
> (<>) {eval}'.

So where does the 'Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit'
message come from? If it has code to output that message, which
means it knows exactly what the user wants, why not just make
that code do what the user wanted in the first place? The only
reason I can honestly conceive of is spite.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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