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1123 :: Question about interactive nim

• bozaloshtsh (orginal) [2015-04-12T19:19:26+02:00] view original

  Can someone explain the nature of the algorithm library (or the nim compiler) that causes the nim interactive shell to behave like this? I've looked through the source code but all it seems to do is define procs.

  >>> var x = @[1,2,3]
  >>> echo x
  @[1, 2, 3]
  >>> import algorithm
  Hint: algorithm [Processing]
  >>> echo x
  stdin(4, 5) Error: cannot evaluate at compile time: x
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• def (orginal) [2015-04-12T19:33:07+02:00] view original

  nim i is not maintained and doesn't work very well. Maybe this will become a viable alternative: https://github.com/wheineman/nrpl

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• Orion (orginal) [2015-04-12T19:45:22+02:00] view original

  I know it's probably not at all what you're trying to accomplish def, but it would be cool for a project like this to have a TUI/curses mode where it lists out all the procs/globals declared in your session, as well as being able to save sessions and come back to them later ;)

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• willyh (orginal) [2015-04-13T14:36:35+02:00] view original

  Hi. I'm the maintainer of nrpl (https://github.com/wheineman/nrpl). It does many of the things you want to do. You can save the current session invoking the immediate command

  
  :s[ave] filename
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  and reload it later with either

  
  :l[oad] filename
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  or

  
  :a[ppend] filename
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  You can list all that's been defined previously with the immediate command

  
  :h[istory]
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  I'm always looking to make improvements so feel free to list any issues or make a pull request.

  Also this:

  
  $ nrpl
  > var x = @[1, 2, 3]
  -
  > echo x
  @[1, 2, 3]
  > import algorithm
  > echo x
  @[1, 2, 3]
  >
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