[cap-talk] EQ, MyCap? review

[Kevin Reid]

On Feb 12, 2008, at 17:23, Charles Landau wrote:

> Do E objects possess the __equalizer object implicitly? I'd assume  
> so since I've never seen it in explicit code. Can it be optionally  
> withheld from an object? If not, then in what sense is it an object?

It is bound in the safeScope(*), a lexical environment object. E code  
is nearly always evaluated in safeScope or a derivative of it,  
however, this is not obligatory. Evaluation always takes an explicit  
environment.

(*: I believe 'scope' here to be a terminology error.)

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