Hi Chris, Hi Benoît,
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Benoit St-Jean via Squeak-dev<squeak-dev@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 ormore terminals or elsewhere. This is how Magma and many otherapplications 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.
You've probably seen this in the other thread. Forgive me; I don't mean to say "I told you so", and the REPL that I did implement is for my own usage, in which I find it much more convenient than scripts. But I don't like to see useful things shot down.
On Apr 12, 2018, at 1:16 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
On 12 Apr 2018, at 03:15, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Sven,
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
On 11 Apr 2018, at 21:44, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote:
I did not know about the NeoConsole. Nice because I wanted to build a
little REPL for my minilanguage implementation.
You are of course welcome to look at it.
But it is Pharo specific.
I use it to be able to hook/look into running headless server images.
For this it is super handy.
Cool usage! Could you tell me whether you type Smalltalk expressions into this to examine your running server? The answer will be used in a related discussion on a mailing list not too distant from this one ;-)
Yes of course, that it the whole purpose, to type in expressions and to manipulate objects in a running image. I recently added options to look at code and change/add methods. All very primitive, but when in trouble, it works well.
So it turns out to be very useful.