By channel you mean sessions right? That's a simple way to circumvent the
serialized nature of evaluations - you can just spin a new session for each
evaluation. Never benchmarked what's the overhead of this, though.

On 4 May 2018 at 00:36, Gary Fredericks <fredericksg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I used the hacky tactic of just sending messages through the nrepl
> channels (while the eval is blocked) to implement this:
> https://github.com/gfredericks/debug-repl
>
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> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:31 PM, Carlo Zancanaro <carlozancan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, May 03 2018, Gary Fredericks wrote:
>>
>>> Separately, I use this macro <https://github.com/gfrederick
>>> s/repl-utils#bg> for running background things in the repl. It probably
>>> targets different concerns, but seems related at least.
>>>
>>
>> My use case is quite different. Requiring someone to decide ahead of time
>> to run code in the background (ie. by wrapping it in another form) won't
>> work for me at all.
>>
>> I'm trying to write a Common Lisp interactive restart system, somewhat
>> similar to what Slime gives you. It actually works pretty well, but it's
>> often helpful to be able to redefine things, or to run some code to change
>> a data structure, before selecting a restart. While waiting for a restart
>> selection the eval thread is blocked, though, so other evaluations have to
>> happen in another thread. The nrepl protocol seems like it was designed for
>> this, given how asynchronous it is, so I was surprised that
>> interruptible-eval explicitly queued up evaluations and ran them
>> sequentially.
>>
>> I've ended up doing this as a solution: https://github.com/czan/dont-g
>> ive-up.nrepl/blob/acc20e0c25aa90a5c991b9cd1f7cc4abe2f1cd6b/s
>> rc/dont_give_up/nrepl.clj#L335. This isn't perfect. There are further
>> modifications required to be able to interrupt evaluations other than the
>> most recent one, but it works well enough to be useful. If anyone has a
>> reason why this is a terrible idea, I'm all ears.
>>
>> Carlo
>>
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