I believe a reify-able clojure interpreter would be useful and interesting.
For instance, for debugging, partial evaluation, environment capture / manipulation, and a variety of tasks that currently require resetting the environment just to see the behavior of code. I imagine this being mostly useful at the repl, for exploring the behavior of programs, and for temporarily changing the meaning of pieces of programs without digging into source code. Anyone with me? Does such a thing already exist? My basic design idea is to have a protocol IClojure that implements the primitives necessary to bootstrap clojure.core. IClojure would be implemented by a concrete datatype. State mutations would correspond to returning new instances of the datatype. Basically, this would be a clojure interpreter as immutable data. So you can fabricate an interpreter with the state that you need, and keep reusing it as you debug your other code. One aspect I'm not clear on is platform isolation. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
