On Nov 26, 7:39 pm, Richard Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Re consistency: I seem to recall Pascal Costanza working on  
> activation of layers, so you can swap a whole set of stuff across your  
> program. He spoke about it at ILC2009, but I'm not sure I've found the  
> right paper. Common Lisp-specific, though."
>
> He showed a website, paused mid-request, where he swapped out several  
> functions. Unpausing the request still ran to completion with the old  
> functions. A new request ran with the new functions. Impressive.

CLOS and the MOP allows you to change a class and have all already
existing instances be transformed into the new form (in an automatic
or user defined way), which makes these things much easier to achieve
than in Java- and Clojure-world.

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