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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> f <- function(a, b, s) paste(a, "", b, sep=s)
> f("Rosetta", "Code", ":")
[1] "Rosetta::Code"
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n