currently, when you want to inspect values via the REPL (druid / norns / max etc), you currently have to wrap your element in a print() call. this gets awkward especially because you have to add characters to both start & end of the string.
instead i'd love to see an extension to the interpreter that pass statements to print under the hood. this could either by a raw call, or we could require typing = first like in many languages.
> var = 42
-- current behaviour
> var --> ERROR
> print(var) --> 42
-- 1) explicit = style
> = var --> 42
-- 2) implicit style
> var --> 42
for thoughts on implementation, take a look at the lua interpreter as it handles this. i think it previously (<5.3) required =, but now works directly (5.3+).
this will make interactive development far faster & less annoying.
currently, when you want to inspect values via the REPL (druid / norns / max etc), you currently have to wrap your element in a
print()call. this gets awkward especially because you have to add characters to both start & end of the string.instead i'd love to see an extension to the interpreter that pass statements to print under the hood. this could either by a raw call, or we could require typing
=first like in many languages.for thoughts on implementation, take a look at the lua interpreter as it handles this. i think it previously (<5.3) required
=, but now works directly (5.3+).this will make interactive development far faster & less annoying.