> For me, it has deficiency as a scripting language: interactive
> (command prompt) use is clumbsy because gnu-readline isn't integrated:
> no history or editing. [This should be easy to fix: there's some code
> in the Vyper.sourceforge.net repository which might be adapted.]

I have already nearly forgotten about this problem: I use the "ile"-tool
(input line editor - some age old piece of software) as "wrapper" around
the OCaml-toplevel, which gives me all these nice features back. Works with
just about any terminal program!

For those of you who don't have it yet, I have put a link to the
source-tarball into Gerd Stolpmann's link database (name: ILE):

  http://www.npc.de/ocaml/linkdb

After compilation, just start it with "ile ocaml" (even better: assign an
alias!)

Especially useful for teaching/demonstration purposes...

Best regards,
Markus Mottl

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Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl