"Background" evaluations shouldn't change the REPL state.

[austinhaas]

This applies to functions that use scrim--redirect-result-from-process, and it affects the repl vars like e* and 1*.

[austinhaas]

Possible solution: wrap background repl calls with code that restores previous state (e.g., *e, *1, etc.), if that is even possible.

We probably want to wrap those in a try...catch, too.

[austinhaas]

Possible solution: wrap background repl calls with code that restores previous state (e.g., *e, *1, etc.), if that is even possible.

I don't think that is possible without writing a new repl function.