Re: misnomers
Sam Steingold <[email protected]>
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> * Bruno Haible <[email protected]> [2017-06-02 19:32:43 +0200]: > > There are a couple of wrong terms in the source code: In addition to being semantically correct, an important requirement is that it should never be used anywhere in any other sense. Ideally, it should be a new term in the source tree (`grep -ri new-term .` should print nothing in the top directory). > * NESTED_IBLOCK/ITAGBODY_frame_info, nest_fun, nest_env: > I'll rename "nested" to "captured". > Because what it does is to move values from the stack > (where they will disappear when the stack frame is unwound) > to other locations (where they cannot disappear, other > than being GCed). "Capture" fails the grep test above. What you are doing is _fishing_ stuff from stack and storing it into heap - how about "haul"? It appears in the tree as LOOP-SYNTAX-OVERHAUL:REPAIR in docs and in a FIXME note in sources. > * 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. gulag? kz? ;-) You store your haul in a freezer. Thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1504 http://steingoldpsychology.com http://www.childpsy.net http://www.memritv.org http://no2bds.org http://mideasttruth.com http://memri.org What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ clisp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-devel