Re: SLIME backend

[Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>]

Helmut Eller wrote:

> * Per Bothner [2008-05-27 21:45+0200] writes:
>
>
> > Note I'm talking about debugging Kawa itself, not Kawa applications.
> > The latter would of course be really great!  There is some support
> > for Eclipse using SchemeWay.
>
> I'll take this opportunity to advertise my SLIME backend for Kawa a bit.
> Please skip the rest of this message if you don't use Emacs.
> ...

Cool.

Although I'm not an Emacsian (I've tried several times over the decades 
and just can't do it), I am interested in Emacs-related stuff like ELisp 
and SLIME.

For those who don't use Emacs, my IFCX Wings tool may be of interest. 
It is an OpenOffice extension that currently supports creating documents 
that embed any JSR-223 enabled language.

http://www.ifcx.org/

Adapting the SLIME backend to JSR-223 could be quite helpful.  While 
most JSR-223 engines focus on compiling independent scripts, using it 
for stateful interpreter interaction can also be done (I recently 
whipped up one for Scala) and it actually better for incremental work 
such as in Emacs and Wings.

>   * the JVM ain't a Lisp Machine (and never will be)

Well, I know what you're saying, but maybe it will.

Not only is there active work for invokedynamic and (somewhat less 
actively) continuations, but there is a spiffy new JVM agent that 
supports (very nearly) complete dynamism for class definitions including 
updating the behavior of existing instances.

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/

Jim