[cap-talk] Persistence as a cap value

[James A. Donald]

James A. Donald
 >> My code editing system uses project files, one for
 >> each project. [...]

Pierre THIERRY wrote:
 > That both creates a new threat and doesn't answer my
 > problem. First, what if I have a dozen totally
 > unrelated editors opened? I could have been writing a
 > poem, and a TODO list, and a LaTeX file, a letter to a
 > friend, and so on and so on. There's no IDE that would
 > gather those files together.
 >
 > Then, if your IDE lets you reopen all those files,
 > that means it has a very broad and persistent
 > authority.

No it does not.  It needs no persistent authority
whatsoever.

Think about it.