C-x C-e renders once and stops at depth 4 and span 8. A field past either
comes back as "..." and nothing recovers it from the echo area. Re-rooting
the walk at that field renders it from depth 0, so the bound moves with you
— that, and not tidiness, is why an inspector is worth having beside the
expression evaluator.
CIDER keeps its inspector stack on the server because a JVM value can be
retained. Nothing here can: a Flan value has no header and the thunk that
rendered it is dlclosed the moment it returns. So the stack is a stack of
expressions on this side, and going into a field means sending a different
one — (.pos b) where the last one was b. It costs a re-evaluation per step,
which buys a view that is never stale and is why refresh is a key someone
presses rather than a timer.
Driven from fixtures, which is also the only way the cases a live program
will not hold still for get tested at all.
Joseph Ferano
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