Hi On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:25:29 +0200 (CEST) Felix <fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org> wrote:
> From: "Daniel Ajoy" <da.a...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Chicken-users] bugs can be corrected live > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:48:37 -0500 >> >> Here >> >> http://wiki.call-cc.org/elevator-pitch >> >> it says this: >> >> "An excellent maintenance environment; bugs can be corrected live, >> without restarting a single process." >> >> where can I find more information about that? >> >> I think that page should have links to the pages where those things >> are explained. > > It just means that you can interactively evaluate code, redefining > global variables on the fly. So if you have a server application (for > instance) and some way of interacting with it (remotely, or through a > console), then it is possible to interactively change things. This is > not fully automatic and the application needs to have explicit support > for it, but it is certainly possible. Some time ago I made an awful screencast that happens to show something like that: http://parenteses.org/mario/awful/awful-guess.ogv Best wishes. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
