Re: misnomers

Hi Sam,

> What you are doing is _fishing_ stuff from stack and storing it into
> heap - how about "haul"?

Thanks for the suggestion.

"haul" means "pulling with force" or "steal".[1][2] It doesn't fit
very well with the NESTED_IBLOCK/ITAGBODY_frame_info, nest_fun,
nest_env situation, IMO.

> "Capture" fails the grep test above.

Hardly:
$ grep -ri capture src/*.{d,lisp} | wc -l
5

I think 5 random occurrences of the same word in the code are acceptable.

> > * 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? ;-)

I'm looking for a word for a building that consists of several interconnected
rows of cells. Gulags and KZs consisted of barracks, not rows. Maybe "palace"
is better than "prison"?

Bruno

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haul
[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haul


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