On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:21:50 -0700 (PDT)
Sean Devlin <francoisdev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm having an interesting (to me) question around a using REPL. Once
> > it's shut down, where does this code go? I feel like I'm in the old
> > TRS-80 volatile coding days where you write some code, and if you shut
> > down you've lost it all. Is this the case? So how do you save your
> > code in a REPL? I understand these could be unique per editor so I
> > understand if you get irate at me for asking such a silly question...
>
> To answer your question about the REPL, yes everything is lost when
> you close it. However, this isn't the whole story. Once you create a
> new project w/ Enclojure, you can send code from a file too the REPL
> either from a context menu or keyboard shortcut (Alt+E in windows).
> It's standard practice to edit your file, and send the code to the
> REPL dynamically. This gets you out of the 1960s and back to 2010.
Most clojure-aware environments will have similar functionality:
SLIME+SWANK, Eclipse, etc. It's not clear this really gets you out of
the 60s, though - it's been standard practice for (file-based *) LISP
development for as long as I can remember. Nuts, it worked with
Scheme2C and mg on the Amiga in the 80s.
<mike
*) InterLISP and some others were more like SmallTalk, or MS BASIC, in
that you edited code at the REPL and saved the entire
workspace. That did add power - I've never seen a file-based LISP
whose error handler would let me fix the code on the fly and
continue execution.
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