There are also a number of live coding editors that do this for environments like SuperCollider and Fluxus
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/ http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ It has always bugged me that more coding environments don't support this, but some languages don't lend themselves to it. wes On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I hate to be the one to bring this up, but this has always been a feature of > all the Smalltalks ... one has to ask, what is there about current general > practice that makes this at all remarkable? ... > Cheers, > Alan > > ________________________________ > From: Murat Girgin <gir...@gmail.com> > To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org> > Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 11:21 AM > Subject: Re: [fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility > > > not sure if this is relevant: > one nifty feature I recently noticed which exists in "SQL Server Management > Studio" was the ability to select things, hit a key, and evaluate only the > selected code. > this seemed to combine some of the merits of entry in a text editor, with > those of immediate evaluation (and allowing more convenient ways to deal with > longer multi-line commands) > > F# REPL in Visual Studio also supports this. Pretty nice feature. > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:01 AM, BGB <cr88...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 9/4/2011 11:38 PM, Michael Haupt wrote: > > Hi Jecel, > Am 02.09.2011 um 20:51 schrieb Jecel Assumpcao Jr.: > > Michael, > > your solution is a little more indirect than dragging arrows in Self > since you have to create a global, which is what I would like to avoid. > > ah, but instead of Smalltalk >> #at:put: you can use any object member's > setter. I was just too lazy to write that. :-) > > Not to mention that one solution is direct manipulation while the other > is typing and evaluating an expression. But between your solution and > Bert's it is obvious that the system can do what I want but the > limitation in the GUI. > > Of course; I see the deficiencies. > > not sure if this is relevant: > > one nifty feature I recently noticed which exists in "SQL Server Management > Studio" was the ability to select things, hit a key, and evaluate only the > selected code. > > this seemed to combine some of the merits of entry in a text editor, with > those of immediate evaluation (and allowing more convenient ways to deal with > longer multi-line commands). > > > Best, > Michael > -- > > > Dr. Michael Haupt | Principal Member of Technical Staff > Phone: +49 331 200 7277 | Fax: +49 331 200 7561 > Oracle Labs > Oracle Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Schiffbauergasse 14 | 14467 Potsdam, Germany > Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect > the environment > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
