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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, thibaut.verron@gmail.com,
	Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: Standardizing more key bindings?
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 08:51:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmu0142l2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kZ4xq-0004oW-4C@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:27:34 -0400")

>   > The languages in question might not have the same kind of 'read', but 
>   > they usually have 'eval', and their REPLs do 'print'.
> 'read' and 'eval' are things that those lanuages don't have.

Many (most?) of those languages do have `eval`, and many have some form
of `read` available as well.

> Their command loops do have the ability to read and execute an
> expression, but that does not break down, in those languages, into
> a combination of 'read' and 'eval' in the Lisp sense.

So what?  Their command loop does do "read, then eval, then print".
It's only natural that what "read", "eval", and "print" means for
language Foo is not necessarily the same as what it means for
language Bar.

Maybe you could argue that Lisp's "read" and "eval" are better, but that
doesn't mean that other languages's command loop aren't "REPLs".

Whether the "read", the "eval", and the "print" part are made available
to the language or only used by the interactive loop doesn't change the
code of the interactive loop, nor how the user interacts with it.
IOW, it's still a "REPL".


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-01 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-27  9:31 Standardizing more key bindings? Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28  3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28  4:38   ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-28  7:39     ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-29  3:30       ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-29  5:07         ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-29 10:36           ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-10-01  4:09           ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-01  5:20             ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-29 21:56         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-01  4:27           ` Richard Stallman
2020-11-01  6:56             ` References to "REPL" from past Jean Louis
2020-11-01 13:51             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-11-02  5:41               ` Standardizing more key bindings? Richard Stallman
2020-11-02  6:14                 ` Yuri Khan
2020-11-02  8:08                   ` tomas
2020-11-02  9:50                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-02 11:40                     ` Python REPL using standard library functions Yuri Khan
2020-11-02 22:46                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-01 21:35             ` Standardizing more key bindings? Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-01 22:27               ` Drew Adams
2020-11-02  5:46               ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-29 21:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-30  6:08   ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-30 16:58     ` Opening Up More Keymaps " T.V Raman
2020-09-30 17:29       ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-30 18:12         ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-30 18:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 18:35         ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 18:41           ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-30 19:54           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 19:58             ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 20:00               ` Noam Postavsky
2020-09-30 20:03                 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 21:00                   ` chad
2020-09-30 21:34                     ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 20:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 20:51                 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 21:13                 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-30 21:19                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 21:37                     ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 21:44                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 23:07                         ` T.V Raman
2020-10-01  2:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01  3:27                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-01 12:38                   ` Ergus
2020-10-01 14:17                     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-01 14:45                       ` Caio Henrique
2020-10-02  3:54                       ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02 10:43                         ` Ergus
2020-10-04 19:34                           ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-02  3:49                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02  6:56                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 11:34                       ` Ergus
2020-10-02 12:26                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04  3:38                       ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-04 10:38                         ` Thibaut Verron
2020-10-04 13:46                           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-04 16:24                             ` Thibaut Verron
2020-10-04 17:00                               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-04 17:32                                 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-10-04 17:46                                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-05  3:11                                     ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-06  8:59                                       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-10-04 17:46                               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-05  3:13                           ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-04 14:10                       ` Howard Melman
2020-10-02  3:45     ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02  6:26       ` Thibaut Verron
2020-10-04  3:39         ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-04  3:39         ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02  6:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 14:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-04  3:38         ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-04  7:16           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05  3:14             ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02 13:56       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-03  2:57         ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-06 12:53 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2020-10-06 13:27   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-06 14:24     ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2020-10-06 14:43       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-08  9:40         ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2020-10-07  4:19   ` Richard Stallman
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2020-09-27 21:38 yarnton--- via Emacs development discussions.

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