[cap-talk] Petnames versus E-order with ocaps

[Rob Meijer]

On Wed, January 28, 2009 21:19, Stiegler, Marc D wrote:
>
>> Which I think is the same as saying, a petname is a
>> one-to-one binding of an object reference to a name?
>
> Attempting to be more precise, it is a one to one binding between an
> object reference and a particular user context. If you and I hold the same
> object reference, we can have different petnames for it.
>
> --marcs

I would drop 'user' from that sentence, and possibly replace 'context'
with 'namespace'.

Something like:

A petname is  a one-to-one binding of an object reference to a name within
a non global namespace.

Rob.