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Scheme REPLs and readline (or lack thereof)

April 22, 2009

Most Scheme implementations provide a command-line REPL, allowing you to interactively enter commands and play about with the language. Unfortunately, they can be incredibly frustrating to use out-of-the-box, all because Scheme distributions tend ship without readline support. As far as I can tell, this is down to licensing issues.
readline is what provides the [...]