[E-Lang] Authority -- what is its dual?

[Marc Stiegler]

Thank you, Andreas. However this turns out, the simple intuitiveness is the
part that shall be preserved at all costs :-)

--marcs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Raab" <Andreas.Raab@gmx.de>
To: "'Marc Stiegler'" <marcs@skyhunter.com>; "'Jonathan S. Shapiro'"
<shap@eros-os.org>; "'Mark Seaborn'" <mrs35@cam.ac.uk>; "'Mark S. Miller'"
<markm@caplet.com>
Cc: <e-lang@eros-os.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: [E-Lang] Authority -- what is its dual?


> Hi MarcS,
>
> Being a newbie here (but having followed the discussion with great
interest)
> let me say that the current formulations on Walnut has something
> fundamentally intuitive. I read it and I got immediately. Regardless of
the
> fact whether immutables contain any authority at all it's pretty clear
what
> you _mean_ here (e.g., nothing "dangerous" gets over the wire and nothing
> "dangerous" gets into E from Java) - and for a newbie this is a much more
> important aspect than using the technically correct term "deeply frozen"
(if
> I hadn't been following this discussion you had lost me at that point). So
> _please_ keep the wording simple and intuitive and add something that
> defines these terms for the nitty-gritty folks rather than the other way
> around ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas