[plt-scheme] Good general term for context elements?

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 14:02:17 EDT 2008


Bob Hieb and I used a term like 'single-layer context' for such  
things and hinted that these are closely related to activation records.

Are you following our new Redex book? I didn't know you had a copy of  
the manuscript. -- Matthias


On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:51 PM, John Clements wrote:

> An evaluation context is made up of a bunch of ... frames?   
> elements? thingies?  I want to talk about the differences between a  
> CEK-like model and an SECD-like model, where the individual context  
> frames are grouped into activation records, and I'm wondering if  
> there's a better term than "context frames".
>
> Anyone?
>
> John Clements
>
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