Re: A question on the definition of a chunk

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message 
<CAOMMs2SekyK5KiJ6wkmULudodpgvbaMsrRBbwi5T5OXiqze05A@mail.gmail.com> 
you wrote:

> > Apologies. All this time I have been equating "chunk" with "block".
> No need to apologise [1]

> [1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.3.2
> "The unit of execution of Lua is called a chunk. Syntactically, a
> chunk is simply a block:
> chunk ::= block"

OK, the concept for which I had been wrongly using these words is one
for which I am ignorant of the right terminology. I think I mean a
subchunk that is maximal with the property that were an
enclosing chunk to be preceded by a local declaration the local 
variable would be in scope in the whole subchunk.

So for example in

do x = a(); y = b() end

the subchunks x = a() and y = b() are not maximal, even though
they are in the scope of foo in 

  do local foo = 57;  x = a(); y = b() end

Is this making any sense?

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