[racket] changing source code with application still running

Racket does not generally support this scenario. You could get close by doing...

% racket
> (require "myapp.rkt")
> (run)
> (set-box! some-function-called-by-app (lambda (...) new implementation))

But it would be very inconvenient to box all functions you may want to
change and you'd have to remember to record all these changes in the
real source code.

(A box is necessary because module-imported identifiers are not set!-able.)

Jay

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Daniel Bastos <dbastos at toledo.com> wrote:
> Here's a quote from Paul Graham --- quoting from
> http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040223.html.
>
> "When one of the customer support people came to me with a report of a
> bug in the editor, I would load the code into the Lisp interpreter and
> log into the users' account. If I was able to reproduce the bug I'd
> get an actual break loop, telling me exactly what was going wrong.
> Often I could fix the code and release a fix right away. And when I
> say right away, I mean while the user was still on the phone. "
>
> I have been trying to understand *how* this is done. I'd hope that
> this is also possible in Racket. But let me ask about the following
> specific situation.
>
> Say I have some application running. I told the shell
>
>      ./run_my_application &
>
> Now, while using it, I notice a bug somewhere. How do I change the
> code and see its new effect without shutting down and rerunning the
> application?
>
> Thank you.
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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
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