I’m hacking on a Julia interaction mode for Emacs in the spirit of Common Lisp’s SLIME and Clojure’s CIDER — both of which are superb, (pretty much) best-of-breed interactive programming environments, and which I miss when I use all other languages. Some features — like putting the current top-level form into the running REPL or system image — require evaluating Julia code in the context of the module where it is defined. These modules can be arbitrarily nested. Hence the need to resolve the module and eval things.
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