early alpha of D REPL

extrawurst stephan at extrawurst.org
Tue Feb 11 00:51:48 PST 2014


On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 08:49:56 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 08:15:55 UTC, Martin Nowak 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 05:37:45 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As I understand it, you are executing dmd in the background 
>>>> to repl.
>>>> Simple and clever :D
>>>
>>> But then how is it saving context?
>>>
>>> Andrie
>>
>> It's using shared libraries to do so. Each new deck/stmt/expr 
>> is compiled in a shared library. This library imports and 
>> links against all previous libraries to make the context 
>> available.
>> I still need to implement a few rewrites, i.e. `auto var = 
>> val;` should become `typeof(val) var; shared static this() { 
>> var = val; }` too support runtime initialization.
>
> Thats a nifty trick!


Did I just kill it ?
After playing around the site is not responding anymore :( I am 
sorry....


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