On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Brian Harvey wrote:

>>   2) DrScheme:  reload the world every time you press run
>
> This idea is BROKEN.  R7RS should absolutely make it clear that this is not
> the way a Scheme REPL behaves.  Maybe a Pascal REPL, if there were one.

No, DrScheme has a conventional REPL, in which you can enter and
evaluate forms one by one as in other REPLs.  But every Scheme system
must have a way to relaunch the REPL, even if it is only by manually
stopping and restarting the Scheme process, and every good editor,
such as emacs, should allow you to highlight and evaluate blocks
of text at once.  The DrSCheme run button is just a convenient way
of doing this.

Andre

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