Re: misnomers

Hi Jörg,

> 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]."

Thanks for the pointer. This "display closure" is a special case of closure
(since it contains a code pointer). And the "display" (what a term!) is a
vector-like arrangement, whereas in clisp we have a tree/forest-like
arrangement.

=> I won't use these terms.

Bruno


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