Context free REPL.

[ghost]

As let is the only way to bind state, interactive development in the REPL becomes very cumbersome.
There is, for example, no way to start a process and save its Pid for later use, as a let context gets lost once the command has finished.

I have currently no solution for this but think it is noteworthy :).

[ericbmerritt]

Thats a good point and something worth thinking about. Right now the repl is basically just interactive module creation. (I know it doesnt feel like that, but it actually is). But thats not really want you want. Let me think about this I may be able to come up with a solution. Maybe even an interesting one.

[kotedo]

Any progress on this issue? It would be nice to have a good REPL :)

[ericbmerritt]

I have done a ton of work moving towards this goal, but I have not quite made it there. Also I have not had much time to work on Joxa of late. Hopefully, that will change soonish.

[ghost]

I think we could use the process dictionary for that.
Actually I don't think that writing

(put :foo (spawn bar))
(get :foo)

is that bad.
This would also cleanly keep the namespace as something that is constructed only by let and functions, instead of having something like defavailable at repl time but not at the code level.