Re: [PATCH] Removing nested functions, part one of lots

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 05:24:00PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden>wrote:
> > В Tue, 1 Jan 2013 14:42:04 +0000
> > Colin Watson <address@hidden> пишет:
> > >  * If a hook requires more than one local variable from its parent
> > >    function, declare "struct <name-of-parent>_ctx" with the necessary
> > >    variables, and convert both the hook and the parent to access the
> > >    variables in question via that structure.
> >
> > Personally I find "ctx" part a bit confusing. It is not really execution
> > context in usual sense, it is just collection of random variables. I
> > would rather go with "struct <name-of-parent>_data" here.
> 
> It's acting as a closure.  That might be a more exact name.

"Closure" has all sorts of baggage for different people that I would
rather not invoke.  In particular the context/data/whatever structure
does not contain any reference to the hook function, so in my book
calling it a closure would be confusing; it's really only part of a
closure, namely the set of associated free variables.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden