From: Dimitri Aivaliotis <aglarond@...>
Date: 2005-01-15T07:10:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Irb and Ruby Separation

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:36:06 +0900, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
> * Nicholas Van Weerdenburg (Jan 14, 2005 22:20):
> > I guess my question might be better phrased "why doesn't running the
> > ruby interpreter with no input not default to interactive mode (irb)
> > such as with the python interpreter".
> 
> It interprets stdin instead.  irb is a completely separate project from
> bin/ruby.  It's much the same as the shell is separate from the kernel;
> an idea that seems to have been foregone by the Python developers.
>         nikolai
> 
Cool:

[shell prompt] ruby
puts "Hello, world!"
^D
Hello, world!
[shell prompt]

So, in effect it does essentially what's needed - just no shell-like
interface, or any of the other benefits of irb.

- Dimitri