From: Michael Ulm Date: 2006-01-17T16:20:44+09:00 Subject: Re: Resetting ruby John W. Long wrote: > List Recv wrote: > >> Okay, Ruby core hackers, can you answer our call?! > > > I don't think there's a need for Ruby core hacking if you follow my > suggestion: > > >> One thing you could do would be to load up all of your libraries and > >> pause on the terminal waiting for user input. As soon as the user > >> unpaused the process it would load in the test cases and run them. As > >> the user was looking at the output and fixing tests you could load up > >> another instance and pause waiting for user input. Stir and repeat... > That would work in this one case where resetting is useful. As this thread has shown, there are others. Here is mine: I want to use an irb-like environment in conjunction with gsl as a kind of super calculator/numerical test engine. A reset method would be tremendously useful as one often wants to start with a clean slate, without losing all the output from the previous computations. So, I second List Recv's plea to the core hackers: ideas anyone? -- Michael Ulm R&D Team ISIS Information Systems Austria tel: +43 2236 27551-219, fax: +43 2236 21081 e-mail: michael.ulm@isis-papyrus.com Visit our Website: www.isis-papyrus.com