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diff --git a/manuals/chickadee/Live-Coding.html b/manuals/chickadee/Live-Coding.html index 74a927c..4e3c174 100644 --- a/manuals/chickadee/Live-Coding.html +++ b/manuals/chickadee/Live-Coding.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> -<!-- Copyright (C) 2017-2020 David Thompson davet@gnu.org +<!-- Copyright (C) 2017-2021 David Thompson davet@gnu.org Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ http://www.texinfo.org/ (GNU Texinfo). <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Index.html" rel="index" title="Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> -<link href="Kernel.html" rel="up" title="Kernel"> -<link href="Math.html" rel="next" title="Math"> -<link href="Window-Manipulation.html" rel="prev" title="Window Manipulation"> +<link href="index.html" rel="up" title="Top"> +<link href="API-Reference.html" rel="next" title="API Reference"> +<link href="Invoking-chickadee-bundle.html" rel="prev" title="Invoking chickadee bundle"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} @@ -82,18 +82,24 @@ ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} <body lang="en"> <span id="Live-Coding"></span><div class="header"> <p> -Previous: <a href="Window-Manipulation.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Window Manipulation</a>, Up: <a href="Kernel.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Kernel</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +Next: <a href="API-Reference.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">API Reference</a>, Previous: <a href="Command-Line-Interface.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Command Line Interface</a>, Up: <a href="index.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> -<span id="Live-Coding-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">2.1.4 Live Coding</h4> +<span id="Live-Coding-1"></span><h2 class="chapter">4 Live Coding</h2> <p>One of the biggest appeals of any Lisp dialect is the ability to use the “read-eval-print loop” (REPL for short) to build programs iteratively and interactively while the program is running. However, programs that run in an event loop and respond to user input (such as -a video game) require special care for this workflow to be pleasant. -Chickadee provides no built-in support for live coding, but it’s -fairly easy to hook up a special kind of REPL yourself. +a game using the Chickadee library!) require special care for this +workflow to be pleasant. +</p> +<p>If you are using the <code>chickadee play</code> command to run your +game, then the <code>--repl</code> or <code>--repl-server</code> arguments are all +you need to get a live coding environment running. +</p> +<p>If, however, you are using <code>run-game</code> to start the game loop then +it’s still fairly easy to hook up a special kind of REPL by yourself. </p> <p>First, create a cooperative REPL server (It’s important to use Guile’s cooperative REPL server instead of the standard REPL server in |