Is there a particular reason we need the executable to do the REPL itself? ir.exe runs irb just fine, and is actually what I've been using lately (there's a few annoyances but nothing earth shattering)
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Tomas Matousek < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could be --repl. > > > > *From:* Oleg Tkachenko > *Sent:* Friday, November 14, 2008 5:35 PM > *To:* Jim Deville; Tomas Matousek; IronRuby Team > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: Executables > > > > I like second option too. But why --dlr? Why not --repl? > > > > -- > > Oleg > > > > *From:* Jim Deville > *Sent:* Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:16 PM > *To:* Tomas Matousek; IronRuby Team > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: Executables > > > > I like the switch option best. We also need to add a –e option to pass some > of the specs. > > > > > > JD > > > > *From:* Tomas Matousek > *Sent:* Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:12 PM > *To:* IronRuby Team > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Executables > > > > Today we have ir.exe that combines functionality of ruby.exe and a command > line REPL. Shouldn't we have also iruby.exe that mimics ruby.exe (ie. if no > file is given it reads input from standard input)? > > Some specs expects that behavior (they start a new process ruby.exe and > write to its input stream). > > > > Another option would be to have a single executable ir.exe that behaves > like ruby.exe and e.g. --dlr switch that makes it run DLR REPL loop. > > > > Tomas > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > -- Michael Letterle [Polymath Prokrammer] http://blog.prokrams.com
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