On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

> 
> On Nov 17, 2011, at 1:47 PM, John Clements wrote:
> 
>> Suppose you run a big-bang program that puts a dot on the screen every time 
>> you press a key.  Now suppose it runs for 1K steps and halts. The user sees 
>> that the window is frozen, but probably won't figure out that the way to 
>> un-freeze it is to go to the stepper window and advance past the end of the 
>> currently-computed steps.
> 
> Perhaps 'universe' should have a 'stepper' entry point so that it can signal 
> to programmers that it is waiting for stepper input. -- Matthias

This sounds complicated (for you and me to implement). What would the user see?

John

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