Re: misnomers

Hi,

Bruno asked:

>There are a couple of wrong terms in the source code:

>* How to call the result of capturing a stack frame?
>  It's a simple-vector consisting of binding cells.
>  The previous term "closure" is wrong (see [1]).
>  I'm hesitating between
>    - "a capture" - because of the verb "capture" above,
>      but still a misnomer [2],
>    - "a prison" - because it's a container for *cell*s,
>      and contains *capture*d values.

I remember the term "display closure" from Scheme compilers / compilation techniques.

The Development of Chez Scheme
R. Kent Dybvig
https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/hocs.pdf

"While researching
how other systems had coped with similar problems, I ran across
a book on the implementation of Algol 60 by Brian Randell and
Lawford Russell [46], which described the use of displays for
speeding access to the free variables of a local function. A display is
a bank of memory locations or registers, each pointing to one of the
frames whose variables make up the current lexical environment.
Displays weren't directly usable for my purposes, but I was able
to make several adjustments and from the display model derived
the notion of a display closure, a heap-allocated vector-like object
holding a code pointer and the values of the free variables [16]."

Regards,
	Jörg

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