[cap-talk] "Same" key

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 14:19 -0800, Dean Tribble wrote:
> Thus, the notion of objects is confusing, but the notion of references
> remains coherent.  It's the references that are capabilities,
> comparable, etc.  I think this perspective is coherent, and I expect
> that we can find consistent terminology for discussing it, mostly by
> not trying to have a single term "object" that simultaneously means
> the implementation artifacts for an abstraction, the client's
> perspective on the abstraction, and the reference distinctions in the
> abstraction.

Dean:

Thank you for an excellent summary of the problem here!

shap
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