Re: The removal of function environments: An opportunity for optimization?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> > >What gets the surrounding _ENV declaration are *chunks*, not functions.
> > >Everything inside the same chunk (a compilation unit) share the same
> > >_ENV, unless there are explicit declarations of other _ENVs.
> > 	Sure.  However, the "body" of a function is a chunk isn't it?
> 
> No. A chunk is a compilation unit, that is, a string or file (or
> whatever) being loaded together. (The manual says that "syntactically, a
> block is the same as a chunk", but the "syntactically" may get lost when
> reading the BNF.)

(We will correct the manual to make things clearer. The correct
description should be that a chunk is a block, not that a block is a
chunk...)

-- Roberto