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Hmmm...I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my build (Mac OS X) or if I'm just "using it wrong" because the REPL (not the language) seems pretty unusable to me.

The up and down arrows just show escape sequences instead of going to previous/next history.

Entering `foo = 123` gives the error `UNDEFINED NAME - foo`. Entering `exp foo = 123` gives the same error.

Entering the same expression on a line in a file works though (`/f test.m`).

Am I doing it wrong?


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