"What is an REPL?" you ask. An REPL is a command-line tool for quickly running statements. In my description, the word "statements" is important. In Java, you normally don't run a single statement or ...

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Maybe you’re a closet Clojure or Scala developer, or perhaps you’ve worked with LISP in the past. If so, there’s a good chance you’ve used a REPL as a part of your daily routine. REPL, or ...

Java developers are slated to get REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) capability via jshell with next year’s planned Java 9 release. In a recent blog post, Oracle’s Jim Connors cited the ease of use enabled ...

Some programs I'd like a REPL for don't take input from the command line, but from standard input. My branch lets you provide the --stdin switch to pipe the line input to the command's standard input.