[Ecls-list] Trigger action when data structure is updated?

[Mark Hoemmen]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 14:52, Rui Maciel <rui.maciel at gmail.com> wrote:
> In order to simplify the design, I'm exploring the idea of storing all
> information related to the models directly as a set of data structures managed
> by the scripting language's interpreter. Yet, in order for that to work I
> would also need to have a way to warn the underlying application if a data
> structure was updated in order to act on the change. For example, if the user
> tweaks the data structures by adding a new line, move point through space or
> delete elements, I would need the underlying application to act on those
> changes and update the model's rendering.

You might like to try the Cells project:

http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/

http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/02/cells-manifesto.html

mfh