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

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

	Hi 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.)
	Ok.  Sorry for the noise.

> (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...)
	Much better!

	Regards,
		Tomás