CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp

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large heap should be eliminated by GC, check your roots.

can you name a program that restarts itself?
(as opposed to its parent restarting it when necessary).

Another possible use might be inside a long-standing process, like a
FastCGI server. For example it could make sense to restart a CLISP running
a FastCGI when the heap is becoming too big.

The typical scenario is to restart from scratch and (load "foo.lisp")
again. For example, a missing parenthesis makes obviously (load "foo.lisp")
fail in the middle of several definitions...

Such a function (IIRC Scheme48 had something similar) would avoid the user
to kill the lisp or slime buffer.

Regards.

Thank you for your suggestion, but I am not sure this is such a grand
idea.

first, you can implement something like that using ext:argv
(http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/environment-dict.html#argv).

second, and more importantly, you want to restart the CLISP
process when something goes seriously wrong,
and then you probably can't really rely on CLISP doing TRT.
instead, you should teach Emacs to restart its inferior-lisp process:

(defun my-il-restart ()
"Restart the current inferior-lisp."
(interactive)
(let* ((buf (get-buffer "*inferior-lisp*)) ; or whatever
(com (process-command (get-buffer-process buf))))
(with-current-buffer buf
(comint-exec buf (buffer-name buf)
(car com) nil (cdr com)))))


ps. restart is a name of a CL class
(http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/syscla_restart.html).
you probably want to name it ext:reexec-lisp-process

pps. I am marking this "rejected/pending",
the RFE will be automatically closed in 2 weeks
unless you get back with an explanation why this is a good idea
(e.g., "all the other lisps do that and SLIME cannot support CLISP without
it").