Commit e604875b authored by Jeremy Hylton's avatar Jeremy Hylton

Restore a minimal definition of execution frame, since other parts of

the manual refer to it.

XXX Not sure that it belongs in this section, or that the concept is
particularly important for writing documentation.  Perhaps references
to the frame should be removed entirely.
parent 1824b59e
......@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ is a code block. The string argument passed to the built-in function
The expression read and evaluated by the built-in function
\function{input()} is a code block.
A code block is executed in an \dfn{execution
frame}\indexii{execution}{frame}. A frame contains some
administrative information (used for debugging) and determines where
and how execution continues after the code block's execution has
completed.
A \dfn{scope}\index{scope} defines the visibility of a name within a
block. If a local variable is defined in a block, it's scope includes
that block. If the definition occurs in a function block, the scope
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