Re: Standardizing more key bindings?

[Stefan Monnier]

>   > The languages in question might not have the same kind of 'read', but 
>   > they usually have 'eval', and their REPLs do 'print'.
> 'read' and 'eval' are things that those lanuages don't have.

Many (most?) of those languages do have `eval`, and many have some form
of `read` available as well.

> Their command loops do have the ability to read and execute an
> expression, but that does not break down, in those languages, into
> a combination of 'read' and 'eval' in the Lisp sense.

So what?  Their command loop does do "read, then eval, then print".
It's only natural that what "read", "eval", and "print" means for
language Foo is not necessarily the same as what it means for
language Bar.

Maybe you could argue that Lisp's "read" and "eval" are better, but that
doesn't mean that other languages's command loop aren't "REPLs".

Whether the "read", the "eval", and the "print" part are made available
to the language or only used by the interactive loop doesn't change the
code of the interactive loop, nor how the user interacts with it.
IOW, it's still a "REPL".


        Stefan