<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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!<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpe7a28039signature">----------------- <br>Benoît St-Jean <br>Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean
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On Sunday, April 8, 2018, 4:09:07 p.m. EDT, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp716184ayiv0590427471"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Tim,<br clear="none"><div class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 11:23 AM, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Although Eliot's little REPl thing for image testing is cool, it is minimal and would need extending to be generally useful.</blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div><div>+0. It's not cool and it would indeed need extending.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> I took a quick amble down the rabbit-hole to see what other REPL things people have made for Squeak and it looks to me that the most advanced one was the REPL package within <a shape="rect" href="http://www.squeaksource.com/SecureSqueak" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.squeaksource.com/ SecureSqueak</a></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Was. Pharo have something much more up-to-date. Take a look at that. They have full curses integration so colored output and the possibility of doing an emacs-like input editor.</div><div class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471yqt1264549701" id="ydp716184ayiv0590427471yqtfd51760"><div> </div></div><blockquote class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471yqt1264549701" id="ydp716184ayiv0590427471yqtfd62806"><br clear="none">
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It's quite old and includes classes like ANSIStream (which I'm going to guess was a pre-i18n work way of dealing with the Squeak charset issues). It apparently "Requires Comanche (or at least ConnectionHandler and SocketStream)." to quote from the swiki page where I found out about it (<a shape="rect" href="http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2648" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wiki.squeak.org/ squeak/2648</a>)<br clear="none">
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A modernised version would be a nice thing to have. I'm pretty much certain I've heard of work on a 'squeak shell' too - which I suspect would be Craig? Am I remembering something about 'squish'? - but I can't find anything right now.</div><br clear="none"></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I would look at the Pharo system.</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small;border-collapse:separate;"></span><div>_,,,^..^,,,_<br clear="none"></div><div>best, Eliot</div></div></div></div><div class="ydp716184ayiv0590427471yqt1264549701" id="ydp716184ayiv0590427471yqtfd41394">
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