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Subject: Re: RfD: Quotations
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Bernd Linsel <bl1@gmx.com> writes:
> Outer words' locals are visible, and when referenced within the
> quotation, they are copied into a dedicated "static variable area"
> (term borrowed from C, and "static" shall be understood as in C)
> belonging to the quotation (and living as long as the quotation
> itself).

How do you know how long the quotation lives, without garbage
collection?  It is still alive if you have passed its xt to some other
function, that has saved the xt somewhere.