REPL semantics

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 12 July 2018 at 22:24:19 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
>
> Right. Hopefully there aren't too many weird cases once that is 
> generalized to other corners of the language. I also never used 
> REPLs for major development, only for debugging and minor 
> tests, so I don't have experience with that style of 
> development where you code everything in the REPL and then save 
> the whole state, which makes it harder for me to evaluate how 
> important certain REPL features are.

I primarily use REPL's for prototyping. It just makes some things 
much easier. So for instance, I can load up some functions and 
libraries and data and then run a bunch of different statistics 
models without needing to compile everything again. I can also 
plot everything as needed without needed to compile everything 
all over again.