On Mar 29, 2009, at 12:50, Grant Rettke quoted Matthias from June 2007:

and in there I saw:

"Escape-control-x is for very small programs and macho, heroic young programmers who have time to waste (including on IRC channels). Real programmers use transparent REPLs."

I'm fine with Matthias's explanation above and at [1].  Sometimes though, I wish I could hold on to, say, a database connection.

Regarding the above quotation, I've used Emacs for 25 years, but I'm unsure what ESC C-x means.  My current Emacs (v22/v23) doesn't understand it.  Matthias, I'm guessing you meant C-x C-e, eval-last-sexp.

To Fred:  In Emacs scheme-mode with mzscheme underneath, I use the behavior you asked about most unheroically, e.g.,

;=> 0.30 ; I'm happy! [2]

; ok, truth be told FPU said it was 0.29999999999999716

Geoff

[1] http://blog.plt-scheme.org/2009/03/drscheme-repl-isnt-lisp.html

[2] "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." (Charles Dickens, David Copperfield)