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

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 14:47:47 EDT 2008

I have this problem, too (it arises with kind of context, not just
eval contexts, as you know).  But that term is so unwieldy.  Have you
thought of contracting it?  "sintext"?  Many sintexts make a context.

S.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> 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:
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>> 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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