5.3. scopes

Scopes contain symbol-result mappings and are used only at evaltime. Unlike arrays and structs, which contain other types and have to either wholly be a constant, ~-stream or !-steam, a single scope can contain any combination of these.

Scopes can be created using the export and export* builtins and are often returned from require.

They are mostly used for grouping definitions and can be indexed using the slash (/) symbol. For more information on this, see section 3.1. symbol resolution.