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Oct 8, 2017 at 18:37
You can redefine function application in Racket! This would be really handy for tracing or debugging.
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Racket - Lisp beyond do Clojure
Racket - Lisp beyond do Clojure
As always, new ideas to programming languages will probably come from Lisp (as Paul Graham said). However, my guess is these things are not coming from Clojure, but from another Lisp-like language: Racket. In this presentation I show some of the things I think (hope, actually) that other languages get.
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Jan 14, 2023 at 20:31
I like the concept of a REPL: an interactive environment where you can redefine code and evaluate snippets to see the result. I try to avoid the term "REPL" though. Most languages don't use "read" for parsing (the R) and it's confusing. Are there good alternatives?
Dec 2, 2022 at 22:58
This article discusses how you often need #'foo rather than foo in Clojure code so you can redefine foo whilst testing your app interactively: https://srasu.srht.site/var-evaluation.html Perhaps function pointers should evaluate to themselves? I wonder if there's a language solution here.
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Oct 18, 2021 at 03:39
Are there any programming languages that combine REPL-style "redefine a single function" development with static typing? I feel like many languages are prioritising the latter, but in principle we could totally have both.