If I wanted to use other versions of Lisp, I would be using them. For my environment (lots of legacy java code) clojure is the right language, and I can't reasonably change to Haskell or Scheme (or whatever) because working from files is a little bit inconvenient.
My point was I hear people gushing about the REPL, but I don't find it that useful because of this one deficiency. It makes me wonder if I'm missing something.
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If I wanted to use other versions of Lisp, I would be using them. For my environment (lots of legacy java code) clojure is the right language, and I can't reasonably change to Haskell or Scheme (or whatever) because working from files is a little bit inconvenient.
My point was I hear people gushing about the REPL, but I don't find it that useful because of this one deficiency. It makes me wonder if I'm missing something.