Re: Mutable reference to a structure field

From: Joe Marshall (prunesquallor_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:55:22 GMT

Alex Drummond <a.drummond@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I'm a bit confused about this now. Surely if I (say) created a big
> list of closures, that would have to take up some stack space? Isn't
> the environment that the closure captures stored on the stack in some
> way?

They would more likely be stored in the heap. If the compiler
determines that a closure is needed, it arranges to move the stack
allocated variables to the heap. 

-- 
~jrm

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