On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <ndarray@mac.com> wrote:
Also, the use of strings will confuse most syntax highlighters. Compare the two options in this screenshot:
[image: Inline image 2]
I guess this is a minor issue for "real" code, but even IPython doesn't (yet?) provide syntax highlighting for lines as they're typed, and this is a tool intended mainly for interactive use. That screenshot also I think illustrates why people have such a preference for the first syntax. The second line looks nice, but try typing it quickly and getting all the commas located correctly inside versus outside of each of the triply-nested brackets... No-one's come up with any names for this that are nearly as good as "arr". Is it really that bad to have to type one extra character, np.array instead of np.arr<tab>? -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh http://vorpus.org
