[IPython-dev] what goes wrong with %%file

[Brian Granger]

I still favor %%file and adding the prompt to overwrite.

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Greg Wilson <gvwilson at third-bit.com> wrote:
> On 2013-05-13 11:09 AM, Carl Smith wrote:
>> I always think of pushing data from memory to storage as flushing it.
>> I don't remember where I picked that term up from, but I guess it's
>> less commonplace than I thought.
> It's a common term among programmers (partly, I think, because 'fflush'
> has been part of the C standard library for more than 40 years), but
> it's not one that most non-programmers would recognize. That's why I'd
> like to try a lightweight name recognition/expectation check on users
> before finalizing new names...
> Thx,
> G
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Brian E. Granger
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