> What benefit? > It would be good to have a solid description of the benefits.
true. i have indeed found e.g. the Erlang shell to be annoyingly limited, and the niggling differences between the Scala and Clojure REP and their compiled runtimes can be frustrating. on the other hand, a lot of people are getting by even under such constraints. off the top of my head, the things i value most: 1) i can experiment with fragments of code while i'm re/learning something about the language, or an API. 2) i can interact with code as sort of a interactive unit testing, or exploration. 3) similarly it can help with debugging. (one thing i think Erlang has that other systems desperately lack (although the JVM has some apparently not-entirely-pathetic tricks and tools to sorta do that) is hot-code-swapping, by the way, which is vaguely related to REPLing around.) sincerely. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
