[Nickle] Nickle bug(?), feature(?), misfeature(?)

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Sep 22 12:00:46 PDT 2004


Around 10 o'clock on Sep 22, Bart Massey wrote:

> Scopes are free, but closures are not.  After looking at the
> code, I think I see the light: you're storing variables for
> blocks in the closure of the enclosing frame, I think.
> Thanks for the clarification.

Right; all variables used inside a function are allocated in the same 
frame record.  I think that's more efficient than having multiple frames 
and static links between them...

-keith


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