Re: How Can We Make G-Expressions Even More Interactive At The REPL?

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"jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> writes:
> Hi Guixers,
>
> How can we make g-expressions even more interactive at the REPL?
>
> For example, thing to explore is what can we print instead of 
> '(*approximate*)?

It's physically impossible to print anything other than a placeholder
there without actually building any derivations, which is the thing
GEXP->APPROXIMATE-SEXP is supposed to /avoid/ :)

> WDYT if we had even more convenience meta-commands for interactive 
> development with g-expressions?

You'd need to give some concrete examples; what can't you do now that
you think could be a good REPL command?

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