Re: Added pause (-p) option to Lua REPL

[Rob Hoelz <rob@...>]

On Fri, 30 May 2014 17:13:19 -0400
Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:

> On May 30, 2014 12:54 AM, "Dirk Laurie" <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > There have been many attempts to offer another REPL, but none so
> > widely accepted as for example to make it into Ubuntu. In the case
> > of Python,
> though,
> > there is vanilla `python` and `ipython`.
> >
> > The reason, IMHO, is that all the various Lua REPLs are nice but
> underwhelming.
> 
> Do you think a compelling REPL for Lua could exist? What would it
> look like?

I'm curious about this as well.  lua-repl doesn't approach the
capability of ipython, but I wouldn't mind some suggestions on how to
make it better.  Some code-based contributions would also be nice. =)

-Rob