also sprach Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> [2001.12.30.0056 +0100]:
> Somewhat analogous, but a pipe is a stream of bytes that is not exactly
> analogous to passing by value, because if the program needs to move
> around in that byte stream, it still must copy the data...

i give you that. i was thinking of it more on an abstract level above
bytes and all those *details* ;^>

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