On 04/01/2014, at 9:31 PM, srean wrote: > > Felix doesn't have eval .. YET. But it will, very soon. > > Oh ! once that happens whats stopping one to run it in read & eval loop.
It can do that now, only, the text to be eval'd must be prepared with a GUI editor that handles multiple lines not a readline like line editor. In fact if you use Vim or Emacs you can implement it right now. Otherwise you could use Python with Tkinter to do it, I had such a system once. Alternatively adapt my sdldemo which is already a multi-window multi-pane text editor with some syntax highlighting (not much) which could easily edit a file in one pane and display the output in another. People using Windows use GUI tools all the time, NO ONE on WIndows uses a REPL from the command line. Of course it's easy to write a line at a time evaluator for Felix. It just doesn't make sense because when you make an error, you cannot just type in a new function. In languages with serial piecewise compilation you can do that .. to replace a function just define a new one with the same name and the old one is hidden. Felix uses an associative table for lookup not a list. So naturally the "REPL" format has to be a bit different. -- john skaller skal...@users.sourceforge.net http://felix-lang.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
