proposal for option to suppress input and output labels
Subject: proposal for option to suppress input and output labels
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:26:49 -0700
On 2/9/07, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> There are some programs (e.g. asksign) which should understand whether there
> is a person or surrogate able to answer displayed questions, and not ask
> questions from a non-existent person. What could be done is perhaps an error
> message such as "computation cannot continue without knowing if XXX> YYY".
Agreed, I think -- when there is no-one at the console, any attempt
to read interactive input should fail. I'm not sure how we can do that.
Robert