On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:14:02 PM UTC-4, jason wrote:
>
> On 3/26/13 11:06 AM, kcrisman wrote:
> > This is just a question mostly for Jason and William, who have both been
> > reimplementing interacts.
> >
> > Could the following syntax be (fruitfully) made to work?
> >
> > @interact
> > def _(x,y=2,1):
> > x,y=x*x+3*y*y,x*y+y*x
> > html("$%s^2-3\cdot%s^2=%s$"%(x,y,x^2-3*y^2))
> >
> > It seems very "Pythonic" in some ways but I assume that Python functions
> > in general don't accept this, so probably it's a bad idea to try to hack
> > it in. But I thought I'd put it out there and risk the ridicule :)
> >
>
> What are you thinking that the result should look like and how it should
> behave?
>
The same as
@interact
def _(x=2,y=1):
x,y=x*x+3*y*y,x*y+y*x
html("$%s^2-3\cdot%s^2=%s$"%(x,y,x^2-3*y^2))
for now. I suppose one could ask for it to look like a vector/tuple but
that's probably asking for trouble, as is perhaps the entire idea since
Python functions don't support this (right?)...
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