Re: [Chicken-users] bugs can be corrected live

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:25:29 +0200 (CEST) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: "Daniel Ajoy" <address@hidden>
> 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
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