[Vm-dev] Recreating live coding in CPython 3.5

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Oct 11 19:49:29 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Jan Vrany <jan.vrany at fit.cvut.cz> wrote:

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> > Indeed such feature is essential for live coding.  I will have to add
> > it to my implementation thanks.
>
> I don't think become: is essential. Smalltalk/X for instance does not
> use #become: yet it still provides live coding (in my opinion).


​Do you know how instances are reshaped without become in Smalltalk/X?​

But indeed it may not be a problem in Python where instances do not have a
fixed number of instance variables anyway. You still need to be able to
enumerate them, to fix them up.

- Bert -
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