#17754: stopgap enhancement
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Reporter: jakobkroeker | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-6.5
Component: PLEASE CHANGE | Resolution:
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Comment (by was):
some data points:
- In practice I have never once heard of any complaints from anybody
about not being able to turn off a stopgap message. Never -- not once.
So this isn't a problem in practice.
- If abs_integrate really is completely broken and full of bugs, then I
would want a stopgap whenever it is first used in a session. Doesn't that
make sense? And why are we using it if it is so broken -- it should
require an explicit flag to use at all. Sage is supposed to **default**
to correct answers unless you otherwise explicitly request otherwise,
unlike say PARI which has the opposite design.
- We could nonetheless add a message to the stopgap output that says: "to
hide this stopgap message so you don't see it anymore, type hide_stopgap
('some-hash-of-message'). Then locally for that user (in ~/.sage) we
could have a file ~/.sage/hide-stopgaps, with lines corresponding to
hashes of stopgap messages. The stopgap function would load and consult
this file before displaying a stopgap message. This gives each individual
user very clear control over the stopgap functionality. To be even
clearer, we could even just put hide_stopgap('name-of-stopgap') or even
hide_stop('exact stopgap message'), rather than a hash, so the user can
clearly see what they are ignoring by consulting ~/.sage/hide-stopgaps.
I.e., no hashes at all.
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