> In fact, I think it's confusing to call the repls of language like Ruby, Java, JavaScript et al "REPL" at all Agreed. I always call them “consoles,” since I

> In fact, I think it's confusing to call the repls of language like Ruby, Java, JavaScript et al "REPL" at all Agreed. I always call them “consoles,” since I work largely in JS and that’s what the browser calls it. There’s no way in a console to jump into a module and modify a single function without resetting any state that the module was tracking.