On Jul 19, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Laurent PETIT wrote:
> Some people have reported that they launch several REPLs when the first one
> is busy for a long time. What they really do, though, is that they launch a
> new java environment with the project files and dependencies. When we have a
> proper REPL client in ccw, we'll also have a way to launch several concurrent
> REPLs for the same java environment. This will be *much* better.
I'm in this camp. I often have a long process running in the REPL and want to
try out other things at the same time. In fact, I sometimes use the REPL just
for the sake of calling doc or find-doc, and I may want to do that halfway
through editing an expression in a REPL... so I need another REPL for that.
When I've wanted to do this kind of thing in my recent CCW work I've actually
run the second REPL in a completely different way, from a clj script in a
Terminal window. Obviously silly, but I'm still wrapping my head around the way
things work in CCW and Clojure more generally. In the Lisp environments I've
used it was generally easy to open a second REPL ("Listener") that acted just
like the first (with access to the same state, etc.). I've never known or had
to care about how this was being done internally.
-Lee
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