[slime-devel] Re: the slime inspector

[Peter Seibel]

marco <mb at bese.it> writes:

> all of this started out with the following goal:
>
> it should be _easy_ to ask a live lisp image what's in it, it should
> be _easy_ to access the associated doc strings and inspect associated
> "things" like the slots of a class or the symbols in a
> package. developers should have the option of telling users to inspect
> the various functions and symbols in a library instead of having to
> produce api documentation in another form (though that's never a bad
> idea).
>
> the attached patch changes, rather radically, the inspector. the lisp
> side now deals with formatting and can create "buttons" (certain
> pieces of text which when clicked call a lambda). this is used to,
> among other things, implement a simple method deleter.

Great!

> todo:

> - figure out how to distinguish between a defvar/defparameter and
>   defcontstant symbol.

How about CONSTANTP?

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp