The Dream of a Lifetime: A Lazy Scoping Mechanism

We define a "rack", a data abstraction hybrid of a register and a stack. It is used for encapsulating the behavior of the kind of register whose contents may have an extent which requires that it be saved during the execution of an unknown piece of code. A rack can be implemented cle...

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Main Authors: Steele, Guy Lewis, Jr., Sussman, Gerald Jay
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5725