[gambit-list] man _gambit func_
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue Feb 10 12:39:07 EST 2009
On 10-Feb-09, at 11:43 AM, Ben Goetter wrote:
> Ramil Farkhshatov wrote:
>> Displaying documentation in browser is NOT scheme implementation
>> work at all. It's
>> IDE's work. Autocompletion, history, syntax highlighting is NOT
>> repl work. It's
>> responsibility of IDE.
>>
> Au contraire. The REPL is a development environment.
You beat me to it! Yes the REPL is an IDE. That's one of Lisp's and
Scheme's fundamental principles. Of course it is not a full-feature
IDE like Jedi, but still you can get a whole lot of work done at the
REPL. So even though a full-feature IDE will have a documentation
browser, with obviously many fancy features for browsing
documentation, there is also a need for the REPL to access the
documentation. What is important is that hooks in the REPL
implementation are available to integrate with the full-feature IDE if/
when there is one.
Marc
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