It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp

Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by maxwelljoslyn on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:22AM (#36889249)

> [Lisp] the thing that bothered me was that when i change code in the repl without an integrated editor, then how do i keep track of the changes and make sure i don't loose them

> [Smalltalk] the code is written to your class, and when you go back to your code browser the change is reflected there

I feel your pain. "writing the changes back to the source code definition" seemed like a no-brainer desirable feature of a Lisp REPL, yet I could not find a way to do that out of the box using Slime. I'm sure one could program it, however! Bet someone has...

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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by pritambaral on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:57AM (#36892159)

> ... yet I could not find a way to do that out of the box using Slime.

Here's what I use: edit code, save file, tell slime to eval current defun. I haven't yet suffered indiscipline to hook `slime-eval-defun` to call `save-buffer`. Would that work for you?

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