[Matplotlib-devel] matplotlib limitations and design flaws

[Phillip Feldman]

I will correct my discussion of the polar plot example.

I'll add something to the discussion of block comments.  Re. Ryan's point
that it is hard to exclude block commented code from greps/regex: This is
equally true of doc strings, and no one is suggesting that we stop using
these.

Is there any plan to incorporate a layout engine into matplotlib?

Phillip

P.S. I want to thank everyone for the thoughtful responses.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Ryan May <rmay31 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A point in favor of not using block comments is that it is *much* harder
> to exclude block commented code from greps/regex. If you comment every
> line, that makes excluding those lines trivial.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Joe Kington <joferkington at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>  Ctrl + / should comment out a chunk of text on most editors that I've
>>> used (Save for e.g., vim).
>>>
>>
>> And it's pretty trivial to set up in vim (note that you'd tupically
>> customize comment marker on a per-language basis through an autocmd
>> function).  This maps commenting out a block to "-" and uncommenting to "_":
>>
>> " Clear all comment markers (one rule for all languages)
>> map _ :s/^\/\/\\|^--\\|^> \\|^[#"%!;]//<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>
>> "Insert comment markers (assumes # unless overridden)
>> map - :s/^/#/<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>
>>
>> There are also smarter options through various plugins, as well.
>>
>> At any rate, block commenting isn't something I've ever missed or felt
>> was a limitation in any way, though that's just my $0.02.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Joe
>>
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