An example of dylan-environment interactive functionality

Note

dylan-environment is currently only supported on Windows. Unix users may wish to skip this section.

The dylan-environment has a few more options and command groups, which will be presented briefly here:

Options	Description
-ARGUMENTS arguments	Arguments for the project’s application
-PLAY	Open and debug the playground project
-START	Start the project’s application
-DEBUG	Debug the project’s application
-PROFILE	Profile the execution of the application
-SHARE-CONSOLE	Share the console with the application

Command Group	Description
BREAKPOINTS	breakpoint commands
DEBUGGING	debugging commands
MEMORY	memory viewing commands
REMOTE-DEBUGGING	remote debugging commands
STACK	stack commands

The following example demonstrates the console environment’s interactive functionality. In the example, the user starts dylan-environment in interactive mode, opens the playground project, performs some arithmetic, defines a method, and then traces it:

$ dylan-environment
Welcome to Open Dylan!

> play
Opened project gui-dylan-playground
Starting: gui-dylan-playground
? 1 + 2;
  $0 = 3
? define method factorial (x) if (x < 2) 1 else x * factorial(x - 1) end end;
? factorial(5);
  $1 = 120
? :trace factorial
? :set messages verbose
Messages: verbose
? factorial(6);
0: factorial (<object>): (6)
  1: factorial (<object>): (5)
    2: factorial (<object>): (4)
      3: factorial (<object>): (3)
        4: factorial (<object>): (2)
          5: factorial (<object>): (1)
          5: factorial (<object>) => (2)
        4: factorial (<object>) => (6)
      3: factorial (<object>) => (24)
    2: factorial (<object>) => (120)
  1: factorial (<object>) => (720)
0: factorial (<object>) => (#[720])
  $2 = 720
? :exit

The commands described in this appendix can also be used in the Command Line window within the Open Dylan IDE on Windows. Choose File > Command Line… from the main window and use commands at the ? prompt.