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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 5:46 AM Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> > Right now, my only complain with the <toclose> is the term "close" that I
> > found a bit vague and over-loaded (conceptually).
>
> Suggestions are welcome.

I've thought about this some and would suggest "bind" or "bound"
instead of "toclose". I think explaining it is easier: the lifetime of
the value is **bound** to the lifetime of the local. (The binding is
bidirectional too since the variable is implicitly const.)

-- 
Patrick Donnelly