Re: "environment" unsuitable name for top-level environment

[Michael Livshin <mike@olan.com>]

Jost Boekemeier writes:
> Hmm.  A top-level-`environment' is an environment and an
> `environment-frame' is also an environment.  Both the environment and
> the environment-frame are the implementation of the idea
> "environment".  But they are implemented differendly.

if I understand Mikael correctly, the point here is that "the idea of
environment" can be (and the implementation is) divided into two
ideas: top-level environments and lexical (closure) environments.
R5RS uses the term "environment" for the former, so I guess the latter
should be called differently.  "lexical environment" is fine, I think.

overriding R*RS on terminology whould not be PC.

--mike

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