S99 : name, symbol, EVAL, import, export.

Author: cognominal

S99-glossary.pod

@@ -460,6 +460,8 @@ document for reference.  See also L</Synopsis>.
 
 =head2 export
 
+See </import>.
+
 =head2 EXPORT::
 
 =head2 Expression
@@ -470,6 +472,8 @@ An expression is all or part of a L</statement>.
 
 =head2 Extop
 
+An extension to the default L</bytecode> L</instruction set> in L</Parrot> or L</MoarVM>.
+
 =head1 F
 
 =head2 FAIL
@@ -646,6 +650,10 @@ If I Understand Correctly.
 
 =head2 import
 
+L</Module>s interact with each other thru named entities called symbols.
+The operation that makes symbols from a module avalaible to another
+module is called import while the operation of using such a name is called import.
+
 =head2 infix
 
 An operator that can appear between two terms.
@@ -869,6 +877,12 @@ speaker doesn't know or because it's an unimportant detail.
 A native value is a L</int>, L</num>, L</str>.
 A native value cannot be undefined.
 
+=head2 name
+
+Syntactical convention to denote an entity in a program source code. Such an entity can be a
+routine, a variable...
+See also : </symbol>, </scope>, </sigil>, </role>, </adverbial pair>.
+
 =head2 need
 
 =head2 NFA
@@ -1393,6 +1407,13 @@ Software Transactional Memory
 
 =head2 subroutine
 
+=head2 symbol
+
+Fancy alternative way to denote a name. Generally used in the context of modules linking,
+be it in the L</OS> level, or at the Perl 6 L</VM> level for modules generated from
+languages targetting these VMs.
+The set of imported or exported symbols is called symbol table.
+
 =head2 Synopsis
 
 The current human-readable description of the Perl 6 language.  Still in