By the way, if anyone is actually interested in this other than for
nostalgia , there have been a number of lengthy discussion on this list
about "Fluent" interfaces for Python. LIke this one for instance:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/python-ideas/Method$20Chaining%7C...
-CHB
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 5:29 PM Christopher Barker
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 11:59 AM Tim Peters
wrote: For a bit of history that I may have made up (heh - memory fades over time!), as I recall, the very first Python pre-releases echoed to stdout every non-None statement result.
which is what MATLAB does, if you don't put a semi-colon at the end of the line (or somethign like that it's been a LONG time)
I always found it mostly annoying, though it did make "print debugging" really easy.
- CHB
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