On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-08-19 18:38, Jonathan Lange wrote: > >> Neither annoys me. What annoys me is getting conflicts from Bazaar for >> changes where there is no *actual* conflict, or having to actually use >> my brain to handle something so mindnumbingly trivial as finding and >> adding imports. Computers should be able to do that for me. > > This came up over lunch today. Stuart joked: why write imports at all? We > could look them up automatically. > > But does that have to be a joke? Couldn't we generate imports (well, those > from other Launchpad modules) automatically during branch build? ...
I would much rather use editor tools than a preprocessor. Once we introduce a mandatory preprocessing stage, we are no longer writing Python code. Editor tools provide much the same convenience, but leave us still writing standard Python. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
