Ping wrote:
> Here are some terms i would be comfortable with:
>
> "capabilities"
> "capability pointers"
> "capability keys"
> "object keys"
> "object capability security"
> "object-based security"
When this issue first came up, I thought about suggesting we regress to 'object reference' and 'distributed object reference', but I thought I had enough on my plate and this is a charged issue. I prefer 'reference' to 'pointer', since there is no 'reference arithmetic' but there is 'pointer arithmetic'. I think the general perception in the programming community is that pointers are forgeable things, whereas references are not (in theory, not reality in some languages).
Since object reference is sort of redundant, we could shorten to just reference. We could then employ the 'e' trick that Mark used with right and call it an ereference, or eref for short.
As is evident on the waterken.com site, I am also happy with MarcS's cap.
Tyler