No idea about #smalltalk

found this:

https://live.exept.de/doc/online/english/programming/contexts.html#HOMECONTEXT

> This is one of the most fundamental differences between Smalltalk and most other programming languages:

> in Smalltalk, a context behaves just like any other object, in that it is not destroyed, IFF there are still references from other objects to it. (typically, these are blocks)

A bit like #Forth - moved away but not forgotten (if I get it right)