[ajanuary]

repl as a name kind of describes the requirements for something to be a repl - it has a read-evaluate-print loop. It would be more confusing to say that something with a read-evaluate-print loop isn't a repl.

[jdminhbg]

Yeah, the problem with "REPL" is that it underdescribes what Clojure, Common Lisp, etc. can do, not that it overdescribes Ruby, Python, etc.