Is it possible to use the interpreter non-interactively?

[Timmmm]

If I have a Sail file

function main() -> unit = {
  print_endline("Hello");
}

Is it possible to execute it non-interactively without compiling it to C?

[Alasdair]

If you do sail -i <file>, then you should be able to execute it by typing main() into the interpreter, and then pressing enter to step through the execution, or use :run or :function to fully execute the function.

[Alasdair]

For entirely non-interactive execution, you can write a script with the interpreter commands you want to execute, then use interactive script command -is as sail -is <script> <file> with something like:

main()
:run
:quit

in the script.

[trdthg]

Why not integrate these steps into sail run command, this will make it easier for many people to learn/practice/test sail syntax

[Timmmm]

Yeah I agree that would be useful. I've been working on support for Sail on godbolt.org and it would be quite helpful there too.