<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 29, 2009, at 12:50, Grant Rettke quoted Matthias from June 2007:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2007-June/018806.html">http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2007-June/018806.html</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>and in there I saw:</div><div><br></div><div>"Escape-control-x is for very small programs and macho, heroic young programmers who have time to waste (including on IRC channels). Real programmers use transparent REPLs."</div><div><br></div><div>I'm fine with Matthias's explanation above and at [1]. Sometimes though, I wish I could hold on to, say, a database connection.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the above quotation, I've used Emacs for 25 years, but I'm unsure what <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">ESC C-x</font> means. My current Emacs (v22/v23) doesn't understand it. Matthias, I'm guessing you meant <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">C-x C-e</font>, <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">eval-last-sexp.</font></div><div><br></div><div>To Fred: In Emacs <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">scheme-mode</font> with <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">mzscheme</font> underneath, I use the behavior you asked about most unheroically, <i>e.g.</i>,</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; hypothetical checking account</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">(- <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#372DD4">1000.00</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; bank balance at Sun Mar 29 13:25:48 EDT 2009</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B30031">400.00</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; oil company #101</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B30031">100.00</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; phone company #102</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B30031">100.00</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; electric company #103</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B30031">125.00</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; cable company #104</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B30031">150.00</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; kids' school lunches #105</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B30031">50.00</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; charity contribution #106</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B30031">74.70</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; little/seasoned/reasoned schemers (amazon) #107</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> )</font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">;=></font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#372DD4">0.30</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; I'm happy! [2]</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">; ok, truth be told FPU said it was 0.2999999999999</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00">9716</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006A00" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div>Geoff</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><a href="http://blog.plt-scheme.org/2009/03/drscheme-repl-isnt-lisp.html">http://blog.plt-scheme.org/2009/03/drscheme-repl-isnt-lisp.html</a></font></div><div><br></div><div>[2] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." (Charles Dickens, </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">David Copperfield</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">)</span></font></span></div></div></body></html>