From: David Mitchell <david.mitchell@...>
Date: 2005-06-16T08:53:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Funniest Thing Evar!

How about this for an explanation:

$ irb
 > def quit
 > puts 'No way'
 > end
=> nil
 > quit

Quits IRB. (So does calling quit())

$ python
 >>> def quit():
...     print "No way"
...
 >>> quit()
No way
 >>>

Small, and pointless reason, but perhaps this has something to do with it.

David Mitchell
(Solidly on the ruby side of the fence).

Bill Kelly wrote:
> From: "Nikolai Weibull" <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
> 
>>% python
>>Python 2.3.5 (#1, Apr 28 2005, 14:11:32)
>>[GCC 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5.20050130-r1,
>>ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie- on linux2
>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>
>>>>>quit
>>>>>'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'
>>>>>
>>
>>%
>>
>>Man, seriously.  That’s so fucking funny.  Can’t we make irb do
>>something similar?  I really hate that irb quits on me when I write
>>“quit” at the prompt.  I’d much rather have it exit on me on ^D only.  I
>>especially like how they take the time to explain that ^D is EOF,
> 
> 
> I never understood that.  :)  Let's find out what a lot of users naturally
> want to do, and add code to inform them they're wrong, rather than
> do what the user wanted.
> 
> That was one of my very first experiences with Python a few years
> back, and I quickly concluded the culture of There Really Is Only One
> Way To Do It was probably not for me... <grin>
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
>