On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 19:10 +1000, Ramana Kumar wrote: > repl does go with emacs in my mind. the vim way (edit, save, re-run > script) trades things off differently.
I do that a lot too. > repl: > - evaluate expressions without wrapping them in procedures / printing > out their values > - don't need to recompile everything for a small change I exit the REPL and restart it a lot in order to recompile changes to libraries and play with them, so I know it's fresh. > no repl: > - definitions aren't side effects / static environments > - less dependent on editor support I think both ways have their place, and I use them simultaneously. -- : Derick ----------------------------------------------------------------
