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Some thoughts on the scala REPL

• frowaway001 13y ago
  > while visually useful, i dislike the leading "|" (pipe) at the beginning of a continuation - it breaks copy and paste. Do you mean copying stuff from the REPL to something else? Because this works: scala> scala> def foo(x: Int) = { // Detected repl transcript paste: ctrl-D to finish. | x > 1 | } foo: (x: Int)Boolean // Replaying 1 commands from transcript. scala> def foo(x: Int) = { x > 1 } foo: (x: Int)Boolean
  • jnazario 13y ago
    usually i'm pasting somewhere else, e.g. some code i'm composing in an editor (and using the REPL to help debug it). thanks for the tip, though, i don't know if i have ever pasted it back into the REPL itself.
    • frowaway001 13y ago
      For this use-case, :save might be useful, although I agree that's it is still not as easy as copy-paste.