Stream: ideas

Topic: repl on panic


view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Nov 07 2021 at 23:39):

idea: https://twitter.com/paf31/status/1457491551064453123 except without the interpreter part :smiley:

I got a prototype working which drops the user into a REPL whenever an error occurs during evaluation, including making everything in the current environment available in scope! https://asciinema.org/a/g6jOg0tgtgLMMzyffdOZKUB4r

- Phil Freeman (@paf31)

view this post on Zulip Lucas Rosa (Nov 08 2021 at 01:01):

It makes a lot of sense. And could be awesome for the editor

view this post on Zulip Locria Cyber (Nov 08 2021 at 06:17):

Python already has this, and you can hook up IPython with pdb to get a fancy REPL on error.

view this post on Zulip Locria Cyber (Nov 08 2021 at 06:18):

It's called postmortem debugging


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