From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Discrepancy between Python and Guile wrt exiting the interpreter
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <efc4b988-c931-0be6-f917-ae428821defd@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <081e7258-3fb8-6231-ca25-f2d18d255645@simark.ca>
On 1/23/20 5:21 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2020-01-23 12:10 p.m., Pedro Alves wrote:
>> Note that these commands are not direct equivalents. The guile equivalent
>> to "pi" which is short for "python" would be "guile", or "gu", and with
>> that command you get the same behavior as "pi", in the sense that ",q"
>> doesn't bail you out, you have to type some command and finish with
>> either Ctrl-D or Ctrl-C to abort.
>
> "pi" is not a shorthand for "python", it's a shorthand for "python-interactive",
> which spawns a Python interpreter prompt/repl. So I think that and "guile-repl"
> are quite similar. It's just that the Python repl doesn't provide a convenient
> way (other than ctrl-D) so say "exit the repl".
Indeed, I got confused with that.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-23 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-18 14:46 Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-19 16:11 ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-19 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-19 17:20 ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-19 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21 19:53 ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-21 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23 17:21 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-23 17:37 ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-23 17:50 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2020-01-23 17:39 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-24 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23 18:30 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-23 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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