F# fifo

This interpreter relies on dotnet fsi being available and on your path

The default interpreter command is dotnet fsi --nologo but it can be changed via the configuration key

require'sniprun'.setup({
    interpreter_options = {
        FSharp_fifo = {
             interpreter = "...."
            }
        }
    }
})

REPL (would solve slowness issues)

For now, REPL is broken due to dotnet fsi being capricious about its stdin.

I’ll explain rapidly how sniprun implement a REPL interpreter around named pipes (FIFOs).

The first time a fifo-based interpreter receive a run command, it forks to the background and executes ressources/init_repl.sh. There is a lot of thing in that script but to replicate, you just have to:

  • mkfifo pipe_in

  • create a launcher script:

#!/bin/bash
cat pipe_in | dotnet fsi 

# or replace 'dotnet fsi' by whatever you cant to try

  • launch it in the background: bash ./launcher.sh &, (or bash ./launcher.sh > out.txt & to redirect stdout to out.txt like sniprun does)

  • ensure the pipe will stay open: sleep 3600 > pipe_in & (cat, exec 3> variations will also work)

  • echo "printfn \" hey \" " > pipe_in or cat hello_world.fsx > pipe_in

  • normally, the result should be printed in the terminal that ran the launcher, or in the out file.

The issue:

right now, dotnet fsi looks like it’s blocked by the first sleep > pipe_in… but something has to keep the pipe open or when it closes, the fsi REPL reading from that will exit.

I suspect the thing has something to do with interactive mode.

For example, python has a similar problem, but python -i (forced interactive mode, even if no terminal is detected because it runs in the background / its stdin was hijacked) works fine in the above example.

If you find something to replace dotnet fsi with, that exhibits the same correct behavior as python -i, sniprun REPL mode should work.