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

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

A chunk is something like a file or a string passed to loadstring. A chuck  
contains a block, which may contain further blocks.

On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:15:26 -0700, Tomas Guisasola Gorham  
<tomas@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

>  	Hi Henk
>
> > On 25 May 2010 14:22, Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>  
> > wrote:
> > >        Sure.  However, the "body" of a function is a chunk isn't it?
> > > I thought it should have a different (local) _ENV like the above code?
> >
> > The body of a function is a block, not a chunk. As Roberto said (and
> > as hinted in the manual), a chunk is a compilation unit.
>  	I checked the "Complete Syntax of Lua" (chapter 9 of 5.2 docs):
>
>  	function ::= function funcbody
>  	funcbody ::= '(' [parlist] ')' block end
>  	block ::= chunk
>
>  	Maybe I'm missing something...
>  		Tomás