I sense you have tutored a practical class.Here's a story from my office mate, the text of the practical (statistics, computational 'practical') was something along the lines of 'Define a vector, ie:v'
So the student typed ie:v and wondered why it wasn't working.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:01,
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So the student typed ie:v and wondered why it wasn't working.
That would be great syntactic sugar for alias though:>>reallyLongVariableName = 3.5 i.e. x
>>y = x ** 2
(>>y = x ** 2
The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:09,
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