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Re: Kawa REPL past evaluation results
Hello Charlie!
Thank you very much for your kind response and your advice.
Im going to study the source code of kawa's REPL to see if I can help
with this.
Greetings.
Alcides.
> Charles Turner <chturne@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Alcides!
>
> On 27 April 2012 03:41, Alcides Flores Pineda <alcides.fp@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I started using Kawa a few days ago, and after doing some work in the
>> REPL, I'd like to know if we have any shortcut/symbol/variable to get
>> the last evaluation results, ala *,**,*** in Common Lisp or like the
>> $1,$2,$3 binding in Guile (with the history module) or the ^,^^,^^^ in
>> Racket (with XREPL), or #1,#2,#3 in Chicken.
>
> To my knowledge, no such mechanism exists yet. I don't think it would
> be difficult to implement in repl.java (or similar). I have a partial
> solution in that I use the 'rlwrap' utility when working at the REPL,
> this doesn't handle multiline forms, but it's better than nothing.
>
> This sort of feature (a history mechanism) is one of many interface
> improvements I'd like to make to Kawa, but I haven't managed to make
> time for them yet.
>
> Cordially,
> Charlie.