{"id":27,"date":"2006-02-20T11:26:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/interacting-with-lisp-sub-expressions\/"},"modified":"2006-02-20T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T19:26:37","slug":"interacting-with-lisp-sub-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/interacting-with-lisp-sub-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Interacting with Lisp sub-expressions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to be able to interact with Lisp sub-expressions? I should be able to, say, hover over a sub-expression (having perhaps set some default input data) and see the dynamic result of that sub-expression. That would make it easier to understand expressions, debug them, etc. Maybe the REPL is all that&#8217;s really necesary and I just haven&#8217;t learned it well enough yet. But it would be really handy to interactively explore the list transformations that happen as an expression (that I&#8217;ve already typed out) is composed. I couldn&#8217;t imagine a faster way to explore it than by hovering over sub-expressions and seeing the result in another window.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone built anything like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to be able to interact with Lisp sub-expressions? I should be able to, say, hover over a sub-expression (having perhaps set some default input data) and see the dynamic result of that sub-expression. That would make it easier to understand expressions, debug them, etc. Maybe the REPL is all that&#8217;s really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}