[plt-scheme] Good general term for context elements?
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:47:47PM -0400, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> 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.
Except for the unfortunate interpretation as sin text, of course. Maybe
"singtext"?
O once wrote a parser generator and called "anal" as short for
"analyse", because mostly it analysed the grammar and only incidentally
made a parser, almost as an afterthought. The parser that went with it
was called "Parse". My students had fun with an axcretory
interpretation:
P
Arse
Anal
-- hendrik