Many language implementations come with an interactive mode.

This is a command-line interpreter that reads lines from the user and evaluates these lines as statements or expressions.

An interactive mode may also be known as a command mode,   a read-eval-print loop (REPL),   or a shell.



Task

Show how to start this mode.

Then, as a small example of its use, interactively create a function of two strings and a separator that returns the strings separated by two concatenated instances of the separator   (the 3rd argument).



Example

             f('Rosetta',  'Code',  ':')   

should return

             'Rosetta::Code'               



Note

This task is   not   about creating your own interactive mode.




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gap> join := function(a, b, sep) 
>   return Concatenation(a, sep, sep, b);
> end;
function( a, b, sep ) ... end
gap> 
gap> join("Rosetta", "Code", ":");
"Rosetta::Code"
gap>