Just to clarify, I was talking about for an existing project. So I've
already downloaded all the dependencies.

I wasn't talking about the first programming experience, I wouldn't
recommend maven for a first programming experience :-)

Cordialement,

Matthew Farwell.

Le 23 décembre 2011 08:04, Andrew <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Baptism by fire using maven I'd say.
>
> Something like this might be cool for your first programming
> experience;
>
> groovyconsole.appspot.com/
>
> No install, no wait for massive dependency downloads...
>
> On Dec 23, 4:50 pm, Matthew Farwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As Josh Suereth pointed out to me, you can do this with maven as well:
> >
> > mvn scala:console
> >
> > which starts the repl with all of the classpath filled in etc. You can
> also
> > use this for exploring java projects, but obviously with a scala syntax.
> >
> > Cordialement,
> >
> > Matthew Farwell.
> >
> > Le 22 décembre 2011 17:42, Dick Wall <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > As is often the case Reinier - you seem to have got your enthusiasm
> making
> > > statements that are far to over general.
> >
> > > Here is the history from my development machine (not one of the ones I
> use
> > > for Scala training) along with the number of times I have started the
> scala
> > > REPL
> >
> > > dick@Apollo:~$ history | wc -l
> > > 500
> > > dick@Apollo:~$ history | grep scala | wc -l
> > > 31
> > > dick@Apollo:~$ history | grep "sbt console" | wc -l
> > > 40
> >
> > > I am a pretty experienced Scala developer now, with about 3 years
> behind
> > > me, and I start the Scala REPL to try stuff out every day I am
> developing,
> > > often several times a day (assuming I don't just leave it running
> > > constantly). REPLs are far from pointless in real life, and I would not
> > > want to use a language without one. Prior to Scala, I used to use
> Python
> > > every chance I got and I used to (and still do) fire up the python
> shell at
> > > the drop of a hat to try out some idea or other. A REPL may not appear
> to
> > > be all that useful to you, maybe because you are used to using
> languages
> > > that don't offer one, but that doesn't make it true for everyone else.
> >
> > > Incidentally, sbt console starts up the current project with all jars
> and
> > > classes in the project already on the REPL class path. Combined with
> tab
> > > completion in the Scala REPL, it is an excellent way of trying out
> ideas
> > > and exploring unknowns, like interactively experimenting with third
> party
> > > ReST web services (I practically developed our interface to confluence
> this
> > > way, using the REPL to send requests and explore the resulting XML
> until I
> > > got what I needed) or just getting a feel for a new API.
> >
> > > I don't use it as my only tool, and I don't doubt that you don't find
> them
> > > interesting, but I also can't let a statement like "REPLs are pointless
> > > in real life" when I use them all the time.
> >
> > > Dick
> >
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