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<div><h1>frames -- get the frames associated to a closure</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>frames f</tt></div>
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<li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>f</tt>, () or <span>a <a href="___Symbol.html">symbol</a></span>, <span>a <a href="___Function.html">function</a></span>, or <span>an object of class <a href="___Pseudocode.html" title="the class of pseudocodes">Pseudocode</a></span></span></li>
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<li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span>a list of mutable lists, the frames attached to the closure <tt>f</tt> or, if <tt>f</tt> is <tt>()</tt>, then the frames attached to the current lexical scope</span></li>
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<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div>This function is occasionally useful as a debugging tool.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : f = (x,y,z) -> t -> t
o1 = f
o1 : FunctionClosure</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : g = f(111,222,"hi there")
o2 = g
o2 : FunctionClosure</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : frames g
o3 = {MutableList{...3...}, MutableList{}}
o3 : List</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : peek first oo
o4 = MutableList{111, 222, hi there}</pre>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>frames</tt> :</h2>
<ul><li>frames(Function)</li>
<li>frames(Pseudocode)</li>
<li>frames(Sequence)</li>
<li>frames(Symbol)</li>
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