[slime-devel] Lisp is not ready for requests from the REPL, can it be any other way?

[Brian Mastenbrook]

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On Jan 13, 2004, at 4:50 PM, Dirk Gerrits wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've noticed that when one's program is running, one is still free to 
> use SLIME. However, attempting to evaluate an expression produces the 
> message "Lisp is not ready for requests from the REPL". Pretty 
> understandable, because Lisp can only do one thing at a time. But I 
> was wondering if it is possible to 'fix' this. Ie I would like to be 
> able to inspect variables and redefine functions etc. *while the 
> program is running*. Can SLIME help me do this? Or should I post a 
> question to comp.lang.lisp?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dirk Gerrits

Hi,

What you're attempting to do requires threading. There has been work on 
that, described on the list. You might check the list archives. 
Hopefully within a month, you should be able to do just that :-)

Brian

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