[cap-talk] "ambient authority" on wiki.erights.org

[Toby Murray]

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:57 +0100, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> Karp, Alan H wrote:
> > Normally, holding a reference to an object allows you to invoke any method
> > of the object.
> 
> The subject in the static variable example didn't "hold" the reference,
> strictly speaking. It accessed it from a scope larger than itself, and
> that access was ambient.

So in

def someAmbientAuthority  ...

def makeBob() {
   def bob {
   }

   return bob
}

'someAmbientAuthority' is part of Bob's ambient authority?