Comments on: A few new Reinteract features http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/ Owen Taylor on Coding, Food, etc. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:41:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Owen http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-1838 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:19:20 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-1838 @David: thanks!

@jim: it’s certainly not what Python does normally. Rather than thinking of it as wrong, though, I might say that Reinteract worksheets are in a language that is very, very close to Python, but behaves differently in a few corner cases. I take that attitude partly because making your example work like exactly like Python is extremely difficult. :-)

I’m going to close comments on this post, since it’s quite ancient. http://groups.google.com/group/reinteract is the main discussion forum for Reinteract.

]]> By: jim http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-1837 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:22:37 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-1837 isnt this wrong???????

x = ["Hello", "world"]
y = x
y[1] = “Python”
x==y
False

]]> By: David http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-1836 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:04:19 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-1836 I am a new user of reinteract, and I want to say that you made a great job. I love it. I am using it for more and more serious work. I used to work a lot with matlab, but I now do almost every thing on python. Your work is a step ahead in enjoyable productivity. Thanks a lot and keep the good work!

David

]]> By: Alex Graveley http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-708 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:40:41 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-708 Oh, and I just realized that I have something actually constructive to add… In my lil toy editor, Jujitsu, I’ve got a “Context” sidebar which is shown as soon as you start typing. It lists all the local variables, arguments, and completions for the current word. I like it but it’s only-half written at this point.

The sidebar only has a chance to be useful in strongly typed languages, unless something like Reinteract could be applied generally to arbitrary Python.

I’ve idly wondered about creating an external side-effect guard, so you could be always testing the current code, and do basic full-program completion and error checking…

]]> By: Alex Graveley http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-707 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:27:59 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-707 I just wanted to say that I love the work you are doing here. Really encouraging and cool. It’s not helping me (want to) learn matlab any quicker though ;-)

-Alex

]]> By: Tim Kersten http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-700 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:30:50 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/2007/12/09/a-few-new-reinteract-features/#comment-700 I think a lot of developers will have very different preferences on the matter. I know several people that are very new to programming and python and like it when they are “assisted” automatically, without needing to activate it manually. I’ve noticed this several times and assume it’s liked as they don’t need to *know* or learn how it works before hand.
I like the way autocompletion for python works in Ulipad. It pops up after no more than one second in most situations. Perhaps, for the sake of intuition, it is possible to implement autocompletion in a manor such as Ulipad, but the first time an autocompletion list is shown, a tooltip-like message would tell the user where the behaviour can be changed to, e.g. ctrl+space. That way it would be intuitive for anyone new to the editor, would suit the newbies, the lazy typists and experienced programmers.

By the way, I really like your ideas on parameter hints and autocompletion.

Cheers,
Tim

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