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Which reminds me of The Funarg Problem Explained by Joseph Weizenbaum https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102720700 https://www.computerhistory.
by lkuty 6y ago
Which reminds me of The Funarg Problem Explained by Joseph Weizenbaum https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102720700 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10272070.... I used its "diagrams" to understand the closure mechanism (definition vs invocation environments) during the course of a Scheme class in 1996.
- samatman 6y agoA link to the actual paper, for the curious http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/Weizenbaum-FUNARG_Problem_Explained-1968.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/Weizen...