From: "(" <paren@disroot.org>
To: jgart <jgart@dismail.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How Can We Make G-Expressions Even More Interactive At The REPL?
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 08:41:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edn335cs.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08ad170f511730aea1d9fcc0e5f5c9c6@dismail.de>
"jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> writes:
> Hi Guixers,
>
> How can we make g-expressions even more interactive at the REPL?
>
> For example, thing to explore is what can we print instead of '(*approximate*)?
It's physically impossible to print anything other than a placeholder
there without actually building any derivations, which is the thing
GEXP->APPROXIMATE-SEXP is supposed to /avoid/ :)
> WDYT if we had even more convenience meta-commands for interactive development with g-expressions?
You'd need to give some concrete examples; what can't you do now that
you think could be a good REPL command?
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2023-05-26 1:19 How Can We Make G-Expressions Even More Interactive At The REPL? jgart
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