On 27/06/2009, at 8:34 AM, Raoul Duke wrote: >> There are a number of design features in Felix which make a >> sequential interpreter problematic. > > i think this might be an area where Better << Good Enough. like, i get > the feeling many REPLs aren't the best they could be, and use various > hacks just to work at all, but that they still offer some benefit to > users
What benefit? It would be good to have a solid description of the benefits. One benefit is: if you have this: >>1+2 3 You do not need to write "print" and you do not need to supply any labelling string, since the result is next to the formula being calculated. Also, you do not need to call up a text editor and then type in a command to save text, then goto another window and type in "run". Also there is no "garbage" file to delete afterwards (which is always forgotten). So in both case there is a saving of many keystrokes. However once you get anything even marginally complicated, the editor/run combination wins hands down for convenience. -- john skaller [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
