Stop two same hints from appearing one after another

[igorT]

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[sophiebits]

Need to make sure that hints button is greyed out if the two final hints are the same.

[marcia]

which exercise was this?

[sophiebits]

Quadratic equation, maybe.

[igorT]

Yes.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:58 PM, spicyj
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Quadratic equation, maybe.

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[igorT]

Yes, but only in some cases when you cannot simplify the last statement

[igorT]

@marcia Its actually a feature request for the framework and not a bug report for an exercise if you thought that.

[marcia]

@igorT oh okay, i just didn't understand why there would be identical hints in the first place, shrug

[marcia]

first, maybe you can show me how you're doing quadratic equations because i'm not sure what the use case is. second, is this something that happens often enough to bake it into the framework? trying to gauge the priority of this, and it currently feels low.

[igorT]

It is low priority. If you are dealing with equations, you will often want to have a simplification or some another step that might not be needed. Doing this should be cleaner/nicer that a bunch of <data-if="should_simplify()"> simplified version</>

[jeffinitelyjeff]

Just a note for the records: this would actually be pretty hard to implement since we'd have to deal with testing equality of arbitrary MathJax blocks.

[marcia]

hm okay, well i'll make a note of this on a card, but since we're not going to do this soon, i'm going to close this issue