Without breakloop not much of a REPL

2021-01-29 Thread SideStep
According to this post: https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/ Breakloop is a true differentiator for "real" REPLs. I can see how breakloop really is a game changer. Also, there is no breakloop in modern languages such as clojure, which is heralded for it's REPL driven de

Re: Without breakloop not much of a REPL

2021-01-29 Thread Brandon R
I believe what's described in that post is possible in Clojure, at least to an extent. I can't remember where I saw it described, but I think it was a talk by Stuart Halloway. IIRC you can configure Clojure to run clojure.main/repl when an exception is thrown, this puts you into a new sub repl with

Re: Without breakloop not much of a REPL

2021-01-29 Thread Brandon R
This may be the talk I was thinking of: https://vimeo.com/223309989 On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:04 AM Brandon R wrote: > I believe what's described in that post is possible in Clojure, at least > to an extent. I can't remember where I saw it described, but I think it was > a talk by Stuart Hallow