Re: modifying current execution line/opcode

[Andrew Fray <afray@...>]

Terisquas Brothers wrote:
> --- "Andrew Fray" wrote:
>
> > Your best bet might be constructing some kind of
> > finite state machine 
> > and a lua-based interpreter/ide.  IMO that's better
> > software 
> > engineering 
> > than trying to hack around with the byte code, and
> > lua's so fast to 
> > develop in that you may find it doesn't take too much
> > longer.
> mmm... what do you mean exactly? a lua interpreter
> from lua?
Sorry, wasn't so clear.

I suggest writing a finite state machine interpreter in lua, and a quick 
GUI that hooks into that interpreter and can alter the machine state as 
to simulate edit-and-continue or stepping to a previous/future point in 
the state matrix.
Although I know that doesn't satisfy the curiosity of the more hardcore 
here! :)
You probably know, but a finite state machine is a closed system 
containing only actions, transitions, and states for those actions and 
transitions to move between.  It's a more formal way of laying out 
probably what you're already doing, and given a good IDE should be 
quicker to create than writing specialized Lua code.