[slime-devel] Re: Towards 1.0?

[Andras Simon]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Luke Gorrie wrote:

> > Are there any features we can remove?  I was going to suggest removing
> > the REPL (because the code is messy and a REPL is not the Emacs way to
> > interact with anything), but I guess people wouldn't like that :-)
>
> Amazingly I find myself using the REPL all the time, even though I
> never use IELM for Emacs Lisp. I'm not sure why.

This one is easy, I think :-) How often are you curious about the return value
of an emacs lisp function given some arguments? If you used emacs lisp for
writing (non-editing-related) applications, you'd probably spend a lot more
time in ielm buffers.

Andras