Re: interactive scheme

Pascal Bourguignon wrote: 
Tydr Schnubbis <fake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Is there a good interactive Scheme interpreter available somewhere?
Something that makes it easy to try out simple things, and has a
usable command history function.  Something like Python's IDLE.

I've tried Chicken scheme and DrScheme, but I didn't quite like them.
I don't want to have to retype a 10-line procedure just because I made
a small mistake.  Or do I have to resort to non-interactive use for
trying out things while I'm learning scheme?


You could try mzscheme inside an emacs inferior-lisp buffer.

I actually use most often pseudo-scheme (a r4rs running on Common
Lisp) in my clisp running in an emacs inferior-lisp buffer.  You
benefit from the standard emacs editing and comint history.

In emacs, there's also slime, and its swank module that has been
ported to one scheme implementation.

I forgot to mention I'm on Windows...

My unix/emacs days are over, and I'm not going back.
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