| 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@jeltsch.net; haskell-cafe@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