> that's not really a language limitation nor typing-system limitation either: that's just good tooling that is able to hot-swap executable code after the proce

> that's not really a language limitation nor typing-system limitation either: that's just good tooling that is able to hot-swap executable code after the process has already started. It's more complex than that. The language absolutely has to define these operations for them to make any sense. Modifying some code inside a function is the easy case, and supported by many environments. Modifying types is much more difficult, and usually not supported (.NET and JVM do not support any kind of type modification - neither field nor function). I'm not sure if the C++ debugger can handle this either. Common Lisp can do it, and it actually defines how existing objects behave if their type changes.