From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-01-27T12:47:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Sourcecode dump?

Hi, Olivier.  If you don't mind, I will probe a little more.  If this sort of 
dialog bothers you, just say so and I'll back away.  But I find that such 
investigations are very educational for me.

On Saturday 26 January 2002 06:33 pm, you wrote:
<snip>
> But now imagine a program that's running.
> You detect a wrong behaviour in it.

At this point I correct the program and rerun it.  I don't typically have 
self-correcting code that contains enough intelligence to detect errors and 
correct them on the fly. (Beyond the standard Ruby constructs, e.g. rescue)

> Since, it's a ruby program, you can change it while it runs.

The program can change itself while it runs.  But how do you, the author , do 
that?  Except by initially coding in self-correcting code?

> You can perform many adjustments while having it running.
> Once they are made, you will probably want to keep them for the next time
> you start the program.

I can understand taking snapshots of a program's state and restarting with 
the saved state.  But I cannot envision the need for a snapshot of the 
complete source code.

> That's why I wanted to be able to dump the sourcecode of a running program
>
> :)

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