From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T00:58:10+09:00
Subject: Re: DRAW 1280, 1024

On 9/9/06, Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
> Martin DeMello wrote:
>
> But (IMHO) you shouldn't be using irb anyway. You should be using a user
> entry event loop that evaluates the user's entries with "eval".
>
> > Doodling over a GUI is of limited use anyway. Simply having a canvas
> > you can interactively draw on from IRB is a neat thing. It was one of
> > the features I'd planned for FXIrb, but I don't have the time to
> > maintain that these days :(
>
> I am at a loss to understand why you think irb is essential to your plan.
> There are much better solutions for talking to the user.

Because IRB has already solved the general problem of a good, robust
REPL. Why should drawing to a canvas be treated as a separate problem?
Ideally it should just be another set of things you can do from the
ruby REPL.

martin