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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by em-bee on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:45PM (#36888264)
you didn't necessarily change the result of (do-it first), you may have, but that just means you introduced another error.

i think the approach here is to accept that you fixed the bug for the second call, but you will still have to go back and retest the first call.

Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by TacticalCoder on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:53PM (#36888319)
> you didn't necessarily change the result of (do-it first)

You're right.

> i think the approach here is to accept that you fixed the bug for the second call, but you will still have to go back and retest the first call.

Gotcha. It looks like a very useful feature. I may actually just try it to try to understand how it works: especially since TFA says the CL integration with Emacs is good (I happen to be an Emacs user).

Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by erik_seaberg on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:12AM (#36888811)
Lisp used to specialize in offering extravagantly expensive features, maybe time travel debugging would be a good addition.