Stream: beginners

Topic: Loading definitions into the repl

Isaac Van Doren (May 04 2023 at 02:14):

Is there a way to load definitions into the repl from a file? Like in the Haskell repl where you can do ghci> :load myFile.hs

Brendan Hansknecht (May 04 2023 at 02:24):

I am pretty sure we don't have that yet

Anton (May 05 2023 at 08:32):

It does seem like a good feature, I'll make an issue unless anyone objects.

Anton (May 05 2023 at 08:33):

@Isaac Van Doren as a temporary workaround I do think you can copy and paste the contents of the file.

Richard Feldman (May 05 2023 at 11:15):

in Elm, this Just Works automatically when you load up the repl (based on the directory you're in)

Richard Feldman (May 05 2023 at 11:16):

so the Roc equivalent would be that when you open the repl we load main.roc (and would accept a CLI arg to specify a different .roc file) and then make everything importable according to what main.roc specifies

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