>>>>> "David" == David Matthews <david.matth...@prolingua.co.uk> writes:
David> On 29/03/2013 20:24, Rob Arthan wrote: >> Quite a common thing to do in UN*X applications is not to prompt if >> the input isn't a terminal. Obviously, I can write my own >> read-eval-print loop that does that (indeed the read-eval-print >> loop in my earlier post on this topic doesn't prompt at all), but >> it might be a nice companion to the change you have just made to >> make the top level do that out of the box. That would give Gergely >> Buday exactly what he is asking for (i.e., the ability to have poly >> read code from the standard input and only output what the compiled >> code outputs). David> I guess it could suppress the prompt if the input was from a David> file but generally I wouldn't want to suppress it if it came David> from a pipe. On Windows I normally run Poly/ML within an David> environment that provides editing and communicates to the Poly David> process through pipes. Since it's interactive I want the David> normal prompts. It's difficult to see how to distinguish this David> from "cat file.ML | poly". Other tools do this by providing an extra flag argument. They prompt if stdin is a tty; or if '-i' (interactive) is provided. Peter C -- Dr Peter Chubb peter.chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ssrg.nicta.com.au Software Systems Research Group/NICTA _______________________________________________ polyml mailing list polyml@inf.ed.ac.uk http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/polyml
