hi Gambits repl is really awesome, especiallly the user friendly interactive debugger. I think it would be even more awesome if one could use a special repl friendly syntax to use an abritrary command.
I've read something on the blog of the Gauche Scheme developer which explains it much better (1):
"S-expression is great to represent tree structure, but it's a bit cumbersome to give simple commands in interactive shell; If the command line is short, the relative verbosity added by open and close parentheses gets in a way. Also in many cases simple commands take string arguments (e.g. to change working directory or to load file) and that require extra double quotes.
I'm not the only one to feel that way. In Allegro CL, if you type a line begins with :, it is interpreted as special toplevel command. Scheme 48 has similar command mode, beginning with ,. I guess there are other implementations with similar features."
(1): http://blog.practical-scheme.net/gauche/20150819-toplevel-repl-commands
So for 'gsi' that could mean we could write
repl> :define hello "world" repl> :display hello
Would that be hard to implement? ben
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Eh just implement it yourself locally if it makes you happy!?
A night.
2015-12-22 21:22 GMT+08:00 ben yakawp ben.lists@yakawp.com:
hi Gambits repl is really awesome, especiallly the user friendly interactive debugger. I think it would be even more awesome if one could use a special repl friendly syntax to use an abritrary command.
I've read something on the blog of the Gauche Scheme developer which explains it much better (1):
"S-expression is great to represent tree structure, but it's a bit cumbersome to give simple commands in interactive shell; If the command line is short, the relative verbosity added by open and close parentheses gets in a way. Also in many cases simple commands take string arguments (e.g. to change working directory or to load file) and that require extra double quotes.
I'm not the only one to feel that way. In Allegro CL, if you type a line begins with :, it is interpreted as special toplevel command. Scheme 48 has similar command mode, beginning with ,. I guess there are other implementations with similar features."
(1): http://blog.practical-scheme.net/gauche/20150819-toplevel-repl-commands
So for 'gsi' that could mean we could write
repl> :define hello "world" repl> :display hello
Would that be hard to implement? ben _______________________________________________ Gambit-list mailing list Gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/gambit-list
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