alt Hacker NewsWell, you can "source" a script, so its effects persist in your current shell session. That's a feature of the script and your shell sharing the same language.
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zbentley • yesterday at 10:19 PM
Sure, but “shell scripts” as an (admittedly imprecise) term usually imply separate executable files, not shell libraries/functions that are sourced.
Then it seems that what you want is running a repl of your chosen language rather than shell/"executable" scripts.