Am Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:56:01 +0200 schrieb "bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com>:
> This not at the top of my enhancement request list, but having > something like this shared by all D compilers seems a step > forward for D: > > http://blog.coldflake.com/posts/2012-08-09-On-the-fly-C%2B%2B.html > > I use the Python shell all the time, for things like: > - As a calculator able to do basic things; > - to import files and process them on the fly in some ways (some > of the things that are also doable with Unix shell commands); > - importing libraries to do lot of things, like graphing with > matPlotLib; > - To try and fix lines/snippets of code to integrate in Python > programs; > - To try things that later I will put inside unit tests > (especially doctests); > - To import whole modules from the shell and try them, to see if > they work, to understand how they need to be used, to try ideas > to debug them, and so on. > > There is a shell in Scala too: > http://www.scala-lang.org/node/166 > > Bye, > bearophile Man, and I've been using JavaScript and a browser to prototype... While that's true, I also have a project called 'test' always open in MonoDevelop, so this is my ready to use main function. Sometimes I copy that code over into proper module, if it looks generally useful. -- Marco