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.
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> *From:* Oleg Tkachenko
> *Sent:* Friday, November 14, 2008 5:35 PM
> *To:* Jim Deville; Tomas Matousek; IronRuby Team
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: Executables
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> I like second option too. But why --dlr? Why not --repl?
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> --
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> Oleg
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> *From:* Jim Deville
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:16 PM
> *To:* Tomas Matousek; IronRuby Team
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: Executables
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> I like the switch option best. We also need to add a –e option to pass some
> of the specs.
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> JD
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> *From:* Tomas Matousek
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:12 PM
> *To:* IronRuby Team
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Executables
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> 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)?
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> Some specs expects that behavior (they start a new process ruby.exe and
> write to its input stream).
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> 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.
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> Tomas
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