4  Working with the REPL

REPL's are one of the many great advantages of Lisp systems, allowing for a faster development cycle. The common-module syntax, however, is incompatible with standard REPL usage if we want exploratory access to imported variables because it must be entered in it's entirety at once. Therefore we recommend REPL's to be able to provide access to common modules somehow. When possible, that mechanism should be to provide top-level REPL access to the following module declarations: