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




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>From: Murat Girgin <[email protected]>
>To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 11:21 AM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Re: a little more FLEXibility
>
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>
>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 <[email protected]> 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
>>>
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