REPL

[yloiseau]

It would be awesome to have a REPL (read eval print loop, i.e. an interactive interpreter) for Golo.

For simple single-line expressions, a simple while true readln + EvaluationEnvironment.run could do the trick, but being able to define functions, structures and augments in this top level repl would be very valuable.

[jponge]

Oh yes, that would be great :-)

[yloiseau]

I’ve already done some tests, but it’s a lot less obvious than it first seems…

• an anonymous module must be built incrementally
• the main should be to just print the evaluation of the entered expression, of update the module if it is a declaration
• the reader should be contextual, since we would like to be able to enter a definition expression spanning several lines
• …