[squeak-dev] Squeak REPL (was Re: Windows, stdin, stdout)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 00:13:52 UTC 2018


On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Benoit St-Jean via Squeak-dev
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:
> Just to give my 2 cents on the subject, when I started this thread I was
> just asking for an easy way to have an interactive headless console
> application.

Start a server on localhost which can then accept commands from one or
more terminals or elsewhere.  This is how Magma and many other
applications work.  Multi-user and modal-less.

> Quite frankly, I never had the need to compile Smalltalk expressions from a
> prompt and I've never seen the benefits of it.  If one wants to execute
> Smalltalk code, we do have the capability to do it by providing a script as
> an argument!  Yes, it's quite nice to be able to do so when you want to show
> off how cool is Smalltalk but is there any *real* use for such a
> functionality?  I doubt it!

+1.


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