From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2007-02-01T05:55:28+09:00
Subject: Re: REPL driven programming

Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@fysh.org> writes:

> On 28 Jan 2007, at 21:31, SonOfLilit wrote:
>
>> This conversation is very insightful, but I find myself impatient
>> as to when
>> more REPL-driven-programming gems will be given.
>
> Something I liked about old school BASICs was the line numbering.
> This, in my opinion, was quite a clever (but primitive) way of having
> a combined editor and immediate mode. A line number prefix signifies
> that you're setting or amending a line. Without the prefix, a line is
> evaluated immediately.
>
> :) Not sure that's a gem though.

APL had that too, and you could even use floating point numbers to
insert between lines (they'd get renamed after editing).

*That's* a gem. :)

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