Re: Commands, term "closure" and online help

[Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> writes:

> > Ah, now you are talking!  Indeed, functions defined with C-x C-e are
> > described as closures.  What would you like to see instead?
> > interpreted-function, perhaps?

> Perhaps "dynamically ..." rather than "interpreted"? That word is used
> in the part of the elisp manual that describes defun also. Something
> like "dynamically generated function" or "dynamically defined
> function"?

Aren't "dynamically defined functions" bytecode functions when running
compiled code?  So this would not be a better term.

AFAIU we want to tell that these functions will, when funcalled, be
handled by the interpreter - thus, are interpreted functions in that
sense.


Michael.