On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:58:10AM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
> On 9/9/06, Paul Lutus <nospam / nosite.zzz> wrote:
> >
> >I am at a loss to understand why you think irb is essential to your plan.
> >There are much better solutions for talking to the user.
> 
> Because IRB has already solved the general problem of a good, robust
> REPL. Why should drawing to a canvas be treated as a separate problem?
> Ideally it should just be another set of things you can do from the
> ruby REPL.

The upshot, I think, is that you'd probably have better luck creating a
new REPL interface than integrating what you want to accomplish with
IRB.

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