On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:24 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]>wrote:
> > It should have a REPL. (how in 2011 can Java still not come with a REPL?) > FYI, every Java IDE offers a REPL. They are call Display views in Eclipse, or there's another kind called scratch pages (I think). Having said that, I think the importance of a REPL is way overstated: it's pretty easy to throw a few lines of Java code together and run them with full debugger support (which the REPL doesn't offer) in a matter of seconds. This is much, much more powerful than a REPL will ever able to offer you. Another reason why I think REPL's are not that useful is that most of the problems that I need to investigate require a full runtime environment to make sense. In other words, I usually need a breakpoint at a specific place and to run my application in order to set up the environment in a way that inspecting the code will make any sense. Again, a REPL is very limited for this and only useful for very trivial situations. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
