Incidentally that makes it super easy to mock out or intercept subsystems if they use dynamically scoped hooks e.g. in most languages intercepting stdio is a pain in the ass (you might have to swap out multiple globals, it's not thread-safe, etc…).
If you're in CL however, you can just rebind standard-output and you'll capture what anyone downstack sends there.
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Incidentally that makes it super easy to mock out or intercept subsystems if they use dynamically scoped hooks e.g. in most languages intercepting stdio is a pain in the ass (you might have to swap out multiple globals, it's not thread-safe, etc…).
If you're in CL however, you can just rebind standard-output and you'll capture what anyone downstack sends there.
Or rebind standard-input and feed an interactive program input from a file or other stream.