Luke Boswell (Feb 03 2025 at 02:06): Luke Boswell (Feb 03 2025 at 02:06):Brendan Hansknecht said:
I should be able to return from the repl to the platform at any point. Then the platform should be able to do something with the object I return (whatever type it may be).
I am confused a little by this.
For example, how can I have a REPL and a host both using the terminal stdio. Particularly if the platform doesn't even know, because it's just a shimmed out app.o.
@Brendan Hansknecht can you describe the way we build a REPL environment?
Brendan Hansknecht (Feb 03 2025 at 02:10):This was not talking about the shim. This was talking about embedded libroc and it running the interpreter as a repl.
Luke Boswell (Feb 03 2025 at 02:10):Ahk... I think the platform part threw me.
the platform should be able to do something with the object I return
Luke Boswell (Feb 03 2025 at 02:11):Here you were thinking the "REPL" is the platform that is driving things.. so we're not really talking platform/application in a normal sense
Brendan Hansknecht (Feb 03 2025 at 02:11):That said, I do think the shim will eventually support a debugging mode. That will probably have to work like pdb (python debugger). For that you launch a separate debugger process and give it the PID of the application using the shim. It can then use interrupts, I believe, to pass info to the interpreter for single stepping and such. (Not 100% sure how it works, but I'm sure we can look at how python does it)
Brendan Hansknecht (Feb 03 2025 at 02:12):Luke Boswell said:
Here you were thinking the "REPL" is the platform that is driving things.. so we're not really talking platform/application in a normal sense
Yeah
Luke Boswell (Feb 03 2025 at 02:14):(deleted) -- I'm just going to hack on some ideas
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