exit

That just gave me the idea that it would be fun to inspect exit a little.

Which led me down this path:

 python

    
>>> repr(exit)
'Use exit() or Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit'
>>> dir(exit)
[(...), 'eof', 'name']
>>> exit.eof, exit.name
('Ctrl-Z plus Return', 'exit')

Okay, cool, the "Use exit() etc." blurb appears because it's the function's repr, and the string is assembled from its name and eof properties.

Now let's try to make our own:

 python

    
>>> exit.__class__
<class '_sitebuiltins.Quitter'>
>>> gtfo = exit.__class__()
TypeError: Quitter.__init__() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'name' and 'eof'

Oh Python, you shouldn't have.

 python

    
>>> gtfo = exit.__class__("a big puff of smoke", "a sneaky skedaddle")
>>> gtfo
Use a big puff of smoke() or a sneaky skedaddle to exit

Beauty!

The era of pedantry is finally over:

Direct support for REPL-specific commands like help, exit, and quit, without the need to call them as functions.

FINALLY! This has always annoyed me. If you’re gonna go through all the trouble of identifying that I want to exit, just DO it.
- It’s not really much extra effort though
  They just added so e text to the __repr__ method on the exit callable object
  That’s much easier than figuring out if your running this interactively and trying to figure out if this is going to break stuff.

The dev thought "I know exactly what you meant, but I still insist you to do it my way".

Same energy as "Option -h not recognized; use --help for the list of options".

I can actually forgive that one since it's the fallback for any invalid argument.
- Not always, way too often you just get a variation of "invalid option, use --help to get a list of options"
  How about you show me by default like most apps?
Or more subtly, when the command uses BSD (nowadays Go) style single-dash args, so it wants -help and not --help.

I have a vivid memory when I was in first grade and asked my teacher if I can use the bathroom, and I got his bullshit response. I was a first grader, so I sat my ass back down and held it. Fuck this horse shit mentality.

Fine, if you're an adult, it's juvenile, but at that point people should understand the difference. Doesn't mean I won't lambast a MFer for being a pedantic prick though.

As an adult I'm asking nobody if I "may" use the bathroom. I might ask, "can I use YOUR bathroom" (notably not "may") or say "can you point me to the bathroom" because I am a human being with a right to access these facilities (Americans need not apply).
Teachers who feel the need to get one over on a child are pieces of shit. It teaches nobody anything except "adults are awful". Be nice to kids, you can fuck them up with something you don't think twice about.
What other lessons did you refuse to learn in school?
- Too many to count, but I learned this lesson. I just struggled with nuance in gramer as a fucking 1st grader.

May I exit

People seriously don't use D to exit REPLs and shells? So much faster.