The Function of FUNCTION in LISP, or Why the FUNARG Problem Should Be Called the Environment Problem

Moses, J. (1970). The Function of FUNCTION in LISP, or Why the FUNARG Problem Should Be Called the Environment Problem.

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Primary research

Year

1970

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https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5854

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Domain-specific

• Funarg problem
  • The funarg problem is the implementation difficulty created when first-class nested functions reference variables from their defining environment under stack-based allocation.

Mechanisms

• Closure Serialization
  • The honest failure mode is the funarg problem made concrete: a closure that escapes its birthplace needs its whole environment preserved, and over-capture either bloats the payload or fails outright on values that cannot leave the process.

    This sourceIdentifies the FUNARG problem as an environment problem for functions used outside their defining context.

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