Re: [Chicken-users] compiled program + REPL ?

[Jordan Henderson]

Seems like you could compile in a REPL, if that's what you wanted.
eval() is a function you can call, you know.

To make changes and recompile, you'd have to have the compiler
installed on the target system.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:27 PM, founda happyplace <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Chicken Friends!
>
> What is possible in terms of connecting to a REPL supplied by a running
> compiled Chicken program? Is it one of the below?
>
> --1-- It's the same as any compiled C program, there's no REPL to connect
> to. Once you've compiled to an executable, you've exited lisp-land. But at
> least you enjoyed your visit.
>
> --2-- There's an egg for it. Your program could include this egg to support
> a connection. From there you could inspect, evaluate, redefine things to
> affect the running program. Once your program is restarted, your changes are
> gone. It's your original program that gets started.
>
> --3-- There's no such egg like [2] but it's possible.
>
> --4-- You can connect, make changes, and save the instance as something new
> on the machine that's running your original program. It won't be as fast as
> your original compiled output but at least this new thing can be restarted
> in the state you left it; you could run it instead of your original program.
> Perhaps it's your original program that gets started initially, and then a
> REPL session is re-played on top of it to resurrect your desired state.
>
> --5-- There's nothing like [4] yet but it's possible.
>
> Or is there something else?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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