One of the main things that I like about Scheme is the REPL.<div><br></div><div>It struck me that the original plan for chuck --shell isn&#39;t completely unlike a REPL in how interaction might work for performance or rapid prototyping. We have some framework for that, in that our parser, compiler and VM all live in the same memory space so if we would want to update some function foo() the system should be able to find what bytecode was generated from the original foo() and replace that with the new one. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Sadly that idea hasn&#39;t received much attention in recent days, but in the Bad Old Days it was treated as rather central to ChucK.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally I&#39;m more interested in the method of interaction than in the exact language used for it; I&#39;d rather look into that stuff than into a more functional (in the CS sense of the word) syntax as such.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kas.</div>