If any lispers are reading this, I'd be curious to hear how you generate example objects at the REPL. Since the lisp community places such a high priority on RE

If any lispers are reading this, I'd be curious to hear how you generate example objects at the REPL. Since the lisp community places such a high priority on REPL programming maybe it's already explored this area in depth. Clojure is my language of choice. What I've been doing so far is keep sample data in my unit test files. I then use a mixture of running code direct from my editor [0], importing the sample data from my (non-editor) REPL [1] and actually running the unit tests. Its worth noting that this usually happens in reverse: I construct the data in the REPL while experimenting and then copy it to the unit tests after for reuse. how does a live programming system synthesize a "Person" object? That just got me thinking. In Clojure, we generally use raw data (primitives, maps, lists, sets, vectors) rather than hiding behind objects, so synthesizing them is the same as any other data. Realistically, there would generally be a constructor function, but most functions are deterministic pure functions. I feel like OO languages may be harder to make play nice with live programming because OO hides a lot of stuff and encourages impurity. [0] I can eval the entire file, the form that the cursor is on, or I can eval code I type into a REPL. [1] (require '[my-test-namespace.my-test-file :as alias]) Then access alias/sample-data