Re: [Help-smalltalk] Including files

[Paolo Bonzini]

> To digress slightly: what I've been daydreaming about is having the
> Read-Eval-Print loop implemented in a Smalltalk process. That way, you
> could substitute another method of interaction (like, say, something
> listening on a port), kill the REP, and restart the image with the new
> interface only. At the moment, you have to supply a script to the image
> that will suspend the REP.
>   
Don't daydream.  :-)

Instead, what we should do is to provide a small C interface to readline 
-- all that's needed actually (at least to start) is the functions 
readline() and add_history(), or a wrapper that does both -- so that the 
REP loop could use a ReadlineStream, a StdinStream, an 
EmacsInteractionStream, and so on...
> I'm increasingly thinking that a Smalltalk image is most similar to a
> database instance.
I agree with the parallel (but it's the weakness as much as the strength 
of Smalltalk...)

Paolo