This isn't possible with bash unless I start the python repl, so at that point, what is the point?
Hey, it's possible you spend a lot of time writing scripts, and they need to be bash compatible. Zsh is great for that.
Just wanted to reflect how made-up this sounds to those of us who treat sh like any other language.
As a matter of fact, this is exactly what I do when I write Python scripts too. It helps understand exactly what things do quickly and figure certain smaller things.
> Just wanted to reflect how made-up this sounds to those of us who treat sh like any other language.
What do you think sounds made-up?
I'm assuming that means you write more shell scripts than I do, or think of the context switch between shells as qualitatively different from the context switch between shell and (some other) repl. All of which is fine.