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Comment by samuell | Hacker News Reader

I was surprised the GoRe REPL [1] was not in the list of existing tools [2]?

[2] https://github.com/sbinet/notes-and-todos/blob/master/README...

that's my personal bias. GoRe's REPL recompiles and re-runs the resulting binary after each line entered, accumulating side effects:

  $ gore
  gore version 0.2.5  :help for help
  gore> var i = 41
  gore> f := func() { i++; fmt.Printf("universe=%d\n", i) }
  (func())(0x4012b0)
  gore> f()
  universe=42
  gore> f()
  universe=42
  universe=43

when Go was released back in 2009 there has been a string of such REPLs, which don't match "my" definition of a REPL, at least, not the one I want to be able to use for exploratory work (the kind you get from a python or IPython prompt)

again, that's my personal bias. that said, GoRe is a nice project (gocode-completion, especially, is nice)

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