Michael Ulm wrote: > John W. Long wrote: > >> List Recv wrote: >> >>> Okay, Ruby core hackers, can you answer our call?! >> >> >> I don't think there's a need for Ruby core hacking if you follow my >> suggestion: >> >> >> One thing you could do would be to load up all of your libraries and >> >> pause on the terminal waiting for user input. As soon as the user >> >> unpaused the process it would load in the test cases and run them. As >> >> the user was looking at the output and fixing tests you could load up >> >> another instance and pause waiting for user input. Stir and repeat... >> > > That would work in this one case where resetting is useful. As this > thread has shown, there are others. Here is mine: I want to use an > irb-like environment in conjunction with gsl as a kind of super > calculator/numerical test engine. A reset method would be tremendously > useful as one often wants to start with a clean slate, without losing > all the output from the previous computations. > > So, I second List Recv's plea to the core hackers: ideas anyone? > Doesn't GC clean the slate well enough for calculations? -- vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407