It just hasn't been implemented, yet. Lexicon complains with "type BasicREPL has no field interface". I'm guessing that a simpler approach could be used in Lexicon, or it could be implemented in ESS (unfortunately, no ESS developers really use Julia).
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Tamas Papp <tkp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13 2015, Tom Short <tshort.rli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If you want to try the Sims docs at the REPL, you'll need to checkout > that > > package and enter "using Sims, Sims.Lib, Lexicon". Then you can do > > ?Resistor or ?"Capacitor. > > > > Note that the question mark doesn't work in ESS. > > Is that an intrinsic limitation of the documentation system/julia/ESS, > or just something that has not been implemented yet? It would be very > nice, since other languages (eg R) use ?function too and that works > nicely in ESS so users are used to it. > > Best, > > Tamas >
