[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-903242 ] Alternative to Semicolon-suppressed output

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Feature Requests item #903242, was opened at 2004-02-24 05:57
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Category: Interactions
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Charles Reis (csreis)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Alternative to Semicolon-suppressed output

Initial Comment:
Currently, typing a semicolon in the Interactions Pane
often/usually has the effect of suppressing any output
of a statement or expression.  As we've debated many
times before, this approach is really sort of a legacy
hack for convenience, and is certainly not intuitive to
beginners (nor even entirely consistent, since I think
we still require semicolons on some but not most
statements).

It would be much better not to use the semicolon for
this purpose, while maintaining some way to view or
suppress output.  (Always printing out the value of an
expression if it has a useful one is probably not a
good idea, due to things like the ridiculously large
toString of classes like JFrame.)

Unfortunately, I don't have many ideas on a better
alternative or a good user interface here.  I wanted to
put up a feature request for this issue to be
discussed, though.  Please post any ideas!

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