From: Kassen <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:01:30 +0100
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:13:25PM -0500, plutek wrote: >> ...and i'm also wondering why anything related to a particular scheme >> environment needs to be a *dependency* of fluxus... can't we just feed >> fluxus scheme code by whatever method we like? or am i missing something >> about the fluxus dataflow?... > > Personally I don't see why FLuxus couldn't listen to Std-in so we > could pipe stuff into it. IMHO redoing the editor in Scheme should be > higher priority but I think we could. > > What should be theoretically possible would be a spawned task in > FLuxus that would use system calls to monitor a named pipe, then call > "(eval my-string)" on the result. I suspect that such system calls are > blocking though, making them less fun. > > You might be interested in using drFlux instead, running that in a > screen session and sending your text there. That works, though it's > less pleasant when you missed a closing bracket. > > Hope that helps you in the right direction. thanks, kas! interesting ideas, and i may take a look at drFlux. still, i guess my basic question is why fluxus (this nice, light, and nimble tool) needs the whole big machinery of racket before we can even compile it... cheers! .pltk.
