| Actually, I have sometimes wished that the various interactive Haskell
| interfaces had the possibility to enter also declarations interactively
GHCi does.
ghci> let f x = "hello"
ghci> f True
True
But there's no editor -- it's strictly a one-line definition
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Bjorn Lisper [mailto:lisper@it.kth.se]
| Sent: 19 December 2005 13:06
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: wolfgang(a)jeltsch.net; haskell-cafe(a)haskell.org
| Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] First steps in Haskell
|
| Simon P-J:
| >Daniel is right, by definition. He is a new user. He had difficulty.
| >That much is incontrovertible.
| >
| >While he may seem unusual, perhaps he is only unusual in that he's told
| >us about his experience rather than trying Perl instead. For which,
| >much thanks, Daniel!
|
| Actually, I have sometimes wished that the various interactive Haskell
| interfaces had the possibility to enter also declarations interactively, as
| Daniel originally asked for. Lisp interpreters often support this to some
| extent, so it is not out of line for a newcomer to expect it also for
| Haskell. I often use hugs as a calculator, and sometimes it would be very
| convenient to be able to make one or a few short declarations while making
| some interactive calculations. It can be quite tedious to create and edit a
| source code file on the side and then load it, when all you want is a short
| declaration or two. Would it be that complex to have an interactive
| interface enter a "declarations mode" when it sees a declaration coming, and
| then let it create, compile and load a temporary module when the declaration
| is finished?
|
| Björn Lisper
