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Re:REPL Debugging: No Stacktrace Required (2017) by lispm on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:50AM (#22524163)
> Breakpoints require halting your system, so while you can inspect the system's state, you can't meaningfully alter it as you could with the kinds of Clojure REPL workflows talked about here.

Fix and continue. Various language implementations provide that.

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Re:REPL Debugging: No Stacktrace Required (2017) by ss3000 on Monday March 09, 2020 @06:19AM (#22524252)
That's altering the _code_ as opposed to altering the _state_ of the system.
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Re:REPL Debugging: No Stacktrace Required (2017) by lispm on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:03AM (#22524415)
Just change the state, too. Many languages/implementations provide that.
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