From: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:00:53 -0700
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:41:19PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> >> Well, lessee. The Common Lisp spec calls them "situations" in the
> definition of (eval-when)...
That's not bad.
FWIW, eval-when only does BEGIN and INIT; CATCH, LEAVE, etc. are handled
by other special forms.
Other languages call them "ON" blocks and such.
AFAIR, only languages that use "ON" as the keyword to introduce them.
> OK, so people already want to say "The BEGIN block". So the set of
> them are "The XXX blocks" where XXX is the collective name for
> those keywords . . .
Not sure I like the stage/phase/chapter metaphor, really. Too static.
On the other hand, situation seems to convey more ad hoc-ness than
strictly necessary.
. . .
Larry
How about "daemon blocks"? That suggests to me that they are invoked as
required, and not necessarily in synchrony with their containing blocks.
-- Bob Rogers
http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/
