[racket] REPL and read-line

Noel, it's just that a few of my commands ask for more input.
It's not the correct domain, but it's something like the difference,
in a linux system of useradd to adduser. I have those that receive a
lot of arguments, and other commands that do the same but build the
arguments by asking the user some questions (with read-line).
Problem is, when I call the command, the first (read-line) inside it
will return always "" because of the newline I used to call the
command itself.

I wonder if it'd be easy (and not break anything) to make the REPL
consume whitespaces between datums.

As of now I they are working with the hack I posted before: The only
problem is that at times, if the user truly wants to give a blank
line, he needs to press enter twice.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Alexandre Moreira <alexandream at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks everyone for your responses. Unfortunately I planned on using
>> the REPL as a kind of shell for a little utility I need, so I guess
>> I'll only have to live with it.
>
> What additional functionality do you need beyond in your shell beyond
> the REPL? Why not just type commands into the REPL directly? I'm a bit
> confused by this use case. If you expand on it perhaps we can come up
> with an alternative.
>
> N.
>



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