On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:07:57AM +0200, Abigail wrote: > > It would be helpful to have a term which means 'block from which one > > can return', i.e. a sub or eval. Suppose we use the word 'frame'. > > Then I'd propose the statement above except with 'frame' instead of > > 'subroutine or method'. > > This whole exercise started because people found the current documentation > unclear. I don't think that introducing the concept "frame" is going to > make the documentation any more clear. Perhaps less.
If there are several places in the documentation where we refer to this odd sort of lexical/subroutine/eval... thing that's not really just a lexical scope and not really just a subroutine scope it would be nice to give it a name and a definition somewhere rather than having to repeat the awkward scoping rules every time. Or maybe the issue is its not entirely obvious that eval STRING establishes a new lexical scope. I know I didn't realize it until recently. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Phillip K. Dick
