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The interactive ambienttalk shell (aka iat
) is the command-line interpreter of AmbientTalk. iat
supports a very simple read-eval-print loop mode: you can type in expressions (currently only single-line expressions), evaluate them by pressing return and see the value of the expression, for example:
>[1,2,3].map: { |e| e*e } >>[1,4,9]
To start iat
, it suffices to execute it from the command-line, provided the java
executable of a JDK1.3.3 or higher JVM is on your executable search path. To get an overview of all available options, execute:
iat --help