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> Well, I'm more than happy to follow any existing convention. But > where are there other pointers named 'context'? As far as I can see, > there is no convention for naming these little pass-through pointers.
I sometimes use the name `closure'.
I like that a lot better. Closures in functional languages are so named exactly because they close over an environment, which is exactly what's going on here.
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