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- Subject: Why can't the Lua REPL remember?
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 16:06:44 +0200
2013/10/4 Fabio Mascarenhas <mascarenhas@acm.org>:
> class notes for Lua course based on PiL
> http://www.dcc.ufrj.br/~fabiom/lua/
> The REPL is good for experimentation, but it forgets anything
> we defined in it after it exits.
The other REPL-based languages I use (Octave, Pari-GP) all
have a hidden history file: when I start them up, the up-arrow
replays to the previous session and often beyond. Why can't
Lua do this too? Isn't it a standard feature of the "readline"
library?
