  The effect of the continuous emission hypothesis on the two-pion
Bose-Einstein correlation function is discussed and compared with the
corresponding results based on the usual freeze-out. Sizeable differences in
the correlation function appear in these different descriptions of the
decoupling process. This means that, when extracting properties of the hot
matter formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions from the data, completely
different conclusions may be reached according to the description of the
particle emission process adopted.
