Hi,

I'd like to know if Light Table has any features for evaluating code in 
local scope.

I think it's very helpful when writing code to see the values flowing 
through it, and be able to inspect/modify them interactively. However, last 
time I tried LightTable with Python there was no way to interactively 
evaluate code outside of the global scope. To give a sense of one kind of 
workflow I'm imagining, I put together a short interaction demo at 
http://kitaev.io/xdbg/html/

I imagine that people on this list have put a lot of thought into different 
ways of increasing interactivity, so I'm curious if this has already been 
implemented or brainstormed.

The only thing in this vein that my searching turned up is the clojure 
instarepl, which unfortunately seems limited both in terms of language 
support, and in terms of support for more complicated code with 
expensive/nondeterministic steps (e.g. something math-heavy, calling out to 
c, or importing external resources).

I'd appreciate any input I could get on this!

Thanks,
~Nikita

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